ENGA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Criminals, Starch, Plausible Deniability
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All falls down - what u going to do when it all falls down when we base our self-esteem on richess and when we do ugliest thing in attaining these riches, we dig deeper in to a hole. When things falls down, he lashes out and destroys whatever threatens his sense of self based on faulty belief system. Kurtz too lashes out and kills the congolese as they threaten his ideal of civilizing the savages . His story is about travelling to congo and bringing back an ailing man: kurtz. Parallel to conrad"s adventure at piloting steam boat and up the congo to transport an ailing agent, who like kurtz enroute. Is a story full of digression and the style that mirrors the disorientation and confusion in marlow so we too are confused and disoriented. In this voyage, marlow gots lost in terms of his beliefs, understandings, his sense of self he had visioned.
