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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... rivets : ' What I really wanted was rivets , by heaven ! Rivets . To get on with the work - to stop the hole ... rivet might be a belief in otherness : a conception of the Other can give an individual , group or society a centre ...
... rivet that gives superiority and security to Us . However , ( the ) Master needs ( the ) Slave to exist : ' If you say that one thing is the opposite of another , you are at the same time asserting their mutual depen- dence , in that it ...
... rivet to stop himself descending further into Kurtzean nihilism . He goes on to say : All that had been Kurtz's had passed out of my hands : his soul , his body , his station , his plans , his ivory , his career . There - remained only ...