关于Joseph Conrad 的Heart of darkness(黑暗的心)的几个问题
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Marlow - The main character of the story, Marlow is a sailor who revels in exploring the uncharted areas of the world. Unlike the characters he meets on his journey, Marlow has not yet been "subjected" to the chaos that is the African Congo and therefore is able to view things in a somewhat rational light. During his journey through the Congo, Marlow comes to realize that the seemingly uncultured natives probably have more sense than the white Europeans who have come to civilize them. It is important to note that Marlow and Kurtz are the only two people in the novel who are addressed by their actual names. This is Conrad's way of showing them parallel to each other.(Willard)
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Kurtz is the chief of the Inner Station and has become almost legendary e to his genius and his station's superior ivory proction. Marlow makes it his goal to find Kurtz because he feels they share a similar passion for the wilderness. As the novel progresses, however, it becomes apparent that Kurtz is not altogether "with it." Years of living in the jungle have made him savage and fanatical. It is partly e to this savagery that the natives of the Congo revere him as a godlike being. Kurtz is in poor health by the time Marlow encounters him.Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror set in the Congo ring the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century. More than a century after its publication（1899）,Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and argualy Conrad's finest work.The story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies.
In Heart of Darkness, Marlow, the narrator, undertakes both an outer and an inner journey. The outer journey takes him into the heart of Africa, where he encounters representatives of every colonial stripe. Performing the work instead of simply reading it, Scott Brick emphasizes this aspect of Conrad's classic, clearly conveying class differences and a range of foreign accents, as well as pidgin. Conrad's prose is dense and complex, but Brick delivers it smoothly and gracefully. However, Marlow's inner journey--ring which he confronts the mysterious Mr. Kurtz--remains too distant and intellectualized to fully capture the emotional charge of the moment. G.T.B.
Novella by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902 with the story "Youth" and thereafter published separately. The story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890, when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The narrator, Marlow, describes a journey he took on an African river. Assigned by an ivory company to take command of a cargo boat stranded in the interior, Marlow makes his way through the treacherous forest, witnessing the brutalization of the natives by white traders and hearing tantalizing stories of a Mr. Kurtz, the company's most successful representative. He reaches Kurtz's compound in a remote outpost only to see a row of human heads mounted on poles. In this alien context, unbound by the strictures of his own culture, Kurtz has exchanged his soul for a bloody sovereignty, but a mortal illness is bringing his reign of terror to a close. As Marlow transports him downriver, Kurtz delivers an arrogant and empty explanation of his deeds as a visionary quest. To the narrator Kurtz's dying words, "The horror! The horror!" represent despair at the encounter with human depravity--the heart of darkness.
Pass the host's male from England to Africa looks for the legendary figure database 尔 of process, the work investigated the civilization of inside pit and outward appearance, displayed the human nature dark, complications.The author tries to feel the everybody's request to the dignity through various idea, the thus latent earth's surface reaches to call to the health humanistically.
4“黑暗的心”本身就含有双层寓意：既指地理意义上的黑色的非洲腹地，也指殖民者黑暗的内心。记录了船长马洛在一艘停靠于伦敦外的海船上所讲的刚果河的故事。马洛的故事除了涉及马洛自己年轻时的非洲经历之外,主要讲述了他在非洲期间所认识的一个叫库尔兹的白人殖民者的故事——一个矢志将“文明进步”带到非洲的理想主义者,后来堕落成贪婪的殖民者的经过。
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