English 2307E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Frame Story, Firstclass, Tyrant

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He has the local people pay homage to him: physically, he looks diminished. Marlow thought he would see a more physically impressive specimen, but kurtz looks emaciated and sickly: kurtz doesn"t say very much (also disappointing) he is supposed to be. We could say that this is the id, the irrational part of the self that is breaking through and saying something truthful about the way that life really is. The truth of the statement : he could be talking about the ivory business (the animal costs, how it robs resources, how people are harmed, kurtz has discovered that at the heart of everything (the. Heart of darkness") is corruption: an existential realization, what it means to live in the modern world (to live alone) Though it is a horrible truth, it is a brave truth: every person is basically alone in the world and left to fend in a fight with the different fractions of your fragmented self.

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