English 2307E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Congo River, Pessimism
11 Mar 2014
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Eg. we may face a problem while thinking about what we"ve done in the past. Conrad"s heart of darkness: there is a drive toward exploring inward states of mind. It was a novella, but conrad also wrote some longer novels: a lot of his novels were also set at sea, or were adventure tales (europeans going out into an exotic land ) He makes his way to the heart of darkness" and then gets out, transformed by the experience: by the end, marlow returns to europe and meets kurtz" fianc . Kurtz (an uncomfortable realization for him to make) The station manager (a good representative of an integrated ego) The accountant is a comical version of the ego (he seems so organized, even his clothes have been pressed while out in the jungle) Id drives your basic desires (sexual urges, dreams: threatens to disrupt your sense of cohesion, heart of darkness: inner station/kurtz" words about the horrors of life.
