The author gets from one idea to another through the use of imagery, changing scenes with each stanza.ģ) Theme: The theme most likely is that this world is not everything it can be. Punctuation marks separate each complete thought. The title of the poem is repeated in the first and last lines. Most likely a male speaker referring to a utopia of what the world should/could look like. Most likely old and wise, possibly telling this to someone much younger than himself. I saw the time approaching when I would be left alone of the party of ‘unsound method.’” “The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress and Kurtz’s life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time. Her dress was as plain as an umbrella-cover, and she turned round without a word and preceded me into a waiting-room." The slim one got up and walked straight at me – still knitting with downcast eyes – and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnambulist, stood still, and looked up. "Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool. The movement of the woman was stately, and the effect of the torchlight on the face was sinister." The background was somber – almost black. "Then I noticed a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing a woman, draped and blind-folded, carrying a lighted torch. Metaphor: The use of this device allows me to make connections between the person being compared to the noun. Allusion: Some references to the devil and Dante: The Divine Comedy allow the story to have a darker tone. Measuring Marlow’s skull is something akin to taking scientific observations of his brain. Foreshadow: This Doctor foreshadows the upcoming danger and eventual madness that Marlow will face in the interior. Lightness is darkness, darkness is lightness. Darkness represents the myteries of life. Symbolism: In this story, light eludes to darkness. And it moved not."Ĥ.) Imagery: Helps me to visualize the text when I'm reading along. "The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence. To the left a clump of trees made a shady spot, where dark things seemed to stir feebly." I came upon more pieces of decaying machinery, a stack of rusty rails.
The thing looked as dead as the carcass of some animal. It turned aside for the boulders, and also for an undersized railway-truck lying there on its back with its wheels in the air. "I came upon a boiler wallowing in the grass, then found a path leading up the hill. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth." " A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. Judging from my view, it is probably based on Conrad’s own negative experience to his voyage up the Congo River. Marlow refers to darkness, madness, and fear throughout the story. It is defined as being removed from one’s social life and allowed to be the sole arbiter of one’s own actions.ģ.) The overall tone of the novel is pessimistic. She asks Marlow what his last words were, but Marlow couldn't break her heart, so he tells her that it was her name.Ģ.) One of the themes in this book is madness which is tied with imperialism. Even though it has been over a year since Kurtz’s death, she is in melancholgy. He comes to Europe and goes to see Kurtz’s Intended. Later on, Marlow becomes ill and barely recuperates. The skulls placed around the station is the consequence of his nefarious actions. Shortly, the gang arrive at Kurtz’s Inner Station, expecting to find him dead, but a half-crazed Russian trader, who meets them as they come ashore, assures them that everything is fine. Kurtz lied to the natives that he was a god and went on brutal raids in the to search ivory.
Marlow and other agents pursue a long, difficult journey up the river. They discover a hut stacked with firewoods along with a note that they should be cautious. Later, his steamship sank and waited until it was fixed. During his travel to Africa, Marlow realized the brutal treatment in Central Station, run. 1.) Marlow is a sailor who travels up the Congo River to meet Kurtz.
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