Pettigrew In Joseph Conrads Heart Of Darkness Video
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One evening much later, while waiting for the tide to change on a boat with his friends, Marlow tells his story.
The horrors of what Marlow finds — Imperialism at its very worst — have inspired countless works of art, including the film Apocalypse Now! But this book does not need adaptation. It remains, even now, a frightening, monstrous, and brilliant story in its own right.
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And this time, my third time reading it, it shocked me more than ever. Kurtz Kurtz, the head of the farthest station along the Congo River, is at the centre of Heart of Darkness like Nostromo is at the centre of his own novel.
But if anything Heart of Darkness is the more adventurous work when it comes to characterisation. We hear of Kurtz slowly, as Marlow heads up the Congo river. Once or twice we hear Kurtz himself, from a year ago, his words filtered through someone else. At first positive, later on the reports grow more concerning.
It is impossible to know what to believe. What is impressive is the way that we are led, initially, to expect to see in Kurtz the model colonialist. It makes the revelation that he has gone mad all the more horrific. We find a report, written by him, filled with the hope for positive change that others had so confidently placed in him.
But Kurtz, ultimately, does not exert his power for good. Perhaps he is too taken by the power itself. It is a wonderful image because we go from the sensible, measured, and hopeful report to the brutal world that Kurtz actually encountered — or made for himself. That Heart of Darkness is not a cheery book is no surprise, but that its bleakness takes the form of loneliness is nonetheless surprising. The other people on the steamer he commands — black and white — have no connection to him. As for the blacks Marlow, prejudiced as most of us were Darkkness then, has no desire to speak with them, whatever his sympathy for their suffering.
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He is alone, and I think it is loneliness that destroys us far from home, not anything else. I tell you it had gone mad! The images Marlow uses to describe Kurtz are characterised by their suggestions of distance and isolation. The way that people describe him also distances us from the real man. Yes, it is turgid, swampy — Conrad is guilty of never leaving a noun without a grave and lumpy adjective.
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