English 1022E Lecture Notes - Perfectly Clear, Euphemism, Eurocentrism
28 Apr 2012
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Like every other sailor, marlow tells a lot of stories. He has an episode as he has to save his friend being held captive in the congos. As we enter into the heart of darkness, we receive no illumination (figuratively). Maybe in a world of darkness, there is no point of relief. Some have a desire to empty just stop/end even if there is no meaning. As a boy, marlow was charmed with the map of africa. There is a snake-like river that runs through, but gets lost in the depths of the country (like the reader getting lost in literary fiction, left with loose ends). Sickness (marlow"s yellow complexion) is a modernist theme, and symbolic of marlow being infected by the heart of darkness (literally and figuratively). He even sides with kurtz who is carrying out mass genocide over the europeans, as the lesser of two evils.
