The way Conrad wrote this book is through long quotations and many symbols and motifs of nature, culture, and morals, in almost every sentence. His style of writing is like this because the main focus is the story Marlow is telling to the Company. In this paragraph shown above depicts how long a quotation can be in this novel and how difficult it is to understand for it is filled with literary devices. The effect of writing his novel solemnly on quotations is to build his theme of madness as a result of Imperialism. These direct quotations help the reader understand the circumstances they were in, also the company workers and natives. The diction used in the quote above is simple and understandable, but they have another meaning to them that
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The major point for this book is, the optimism Marlow has and the corruptness in Kurtz and how these two characters bounce off each other. This book shows how even though there are many places where there is civilization and freedom, does not mean that everywhere that is how it is. For example, even though the Congo river was only down Thames there was torture there despite the close proximity. This book demonstrates that democracy does not always mean freedom, for the pilgrims they were still judged for their practices and background from the white workers. Marlow, always protected people, despite his difficult job. He would protect Kurtz during his health problems despite his acts in taking ivory. Kurtz was powerful among the natives, but only to look good upon them. These to characters help bring out how the world is down in Africa. The values of this book are to exempt how people need to be open to the differences there are between people and the darkness people have in their mind. Conrad wrote this book for the main motive to be to show the madness and compare it to how the world is now. However, this book is criticized about its views towards imperialism, as it is an important theme, since it says it is efficient and I
The major point for this book is, the optimism Marlow has and the corruptness in Kurtz and how these two characters bounce off each other. This book shows how even though there are many places where there is civilization and freedom, does not mean that everywhere that is how it is. For example, even though the Congo river was only down Thames there was torture there despite the close proximity. This book demonstrates that democracy does not always mean freedom, for the pilgrims they were still judged for their practices and background from the white workers. Marlow, always protected people, despite his difficult job. He would protect Kurtz during his health problems despite his acts in taking ivory. Kurtz was powerful among the natives, but only to look good upon them. These to characters help bring out how the world is down in Africa. The values of this book are to exempt how people need to be open to the differences there are between people and the darkness people have in their mind. Conrad wrote this book for the main motive to be to show the madness and compare it to how the world is now. However, this book is criticized about its views towards imperialism, as it is an important theme, since it says it is efficient and I