ENGL123 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Edward Said, Making Money, Mercantilism
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Mercantilism making money off lands, taking the resources out. Imperialism- basically about control, ruling, different in the sense that you take over, not take out. Present: neoimperalism either your with us or against us . Important critic : edward said (sai eed) imperialism is direct control, but more over their attitudes. Colonialism is the implanting of settlements on a distant territory. Relativity- nothing is absolute: literal, figurative, structural. Going up river was like travelling back to the earliest beginning of the word (61) Conquest of the earth (39) - undermines how marlow feels towards imperealism. He saw the world positive and wanted to explore the world, but after the congo he doesn"t feel the same. Author creates the work, but the unnamed narrator describes marlows perspective. Critic- edward said, orientalism, describes how europeans see the rest of the world. Europeans see like a paternalistic view over the other savages as children .