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A 9 page paper that analyzes Joseph Conrad's 1902 novel, 'Heart of Darkness.' The writer is primarily concerned with evaluating the character of Marlow.
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as a sea tale is missing the point. Although pretty much confined in setting to a boat anchored along the Thames River, the story encompasses a much larger landscape.
The book is initially told in the third-person narrative style, with a dispassionate observer relaying his impressions of the Nellie, temporarily docked along the Thames and her crew.
The first glimpse of sailor Charlie Marlow is singularly unimpressive: "Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight
back, an ascetic aspect, and, with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol" (Conrad 3). Marlow is not just a salty sailor who
spends his time between trips spinning tales of drunken debauchery. His is a thoughtful and introspective man of extraordinary perception, as is revealed in this passage where he tells
his seagoing buddies that so-called civilized society continues to live behind the shadow of darkness: "I was thinking of very old times, when the Romans first came here, nineteen hundred
years ago--the other day. . . . Light came out of this river since--you say Knights? Yes; but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like
a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker--may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday" (Conrad
8). Here, Joseph Conrad seems to be saying that the world has always been a place shrouded in darkness, despite repeated attempts by societies like Rome and England to
cover it with a veil of civilization. Marlow remarks to his friends how this, too, was once a vast wilderness of uncharted territory. In this moment of quiet
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