Heart of Darkness: Character StudiesBloomsbury Academic, 2008 M05 27 - 110 pages Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) is one of the most important literary works of the early twentieth century. It has provoked much critical debate, on issues such as fin de siècle doubt and pessimism, European colonialism, racism, and misogyny. Engaging with the novel's characters is crucial to understanding its complexity and its criticalhistory. |
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... perhaps been affected by it : perhaps he makes the air seem ' a mournful gloom , brooding motionless ' to indicate something negative about the city and uses ' greatest ' ironically . The narrator goes on to say , regarding the Thames ...
... perhaps because he really cannot inter- pret the worsted , which raises doubts about his wisdom . But perhaps the worsted is for Marlow something ' too dark alto- gether ' ( p . 123 ) , something that he is unwilling or unable to speak ...
... Perhaps he has a ' rotten apple ' on his hands ; his cer- tainty that he ' could not tell her ' because it ' would have been too dark ' might be based on a falsehood : that women are weaker than men , that they cannot handle the ...