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This 4 page paper discusses the perspectives, values, and shifts in character which take place in The Heart of Darkness's Marlowe. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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especially in regard to the dark side of the human condition. The primary narrator is a character named, Marlow. It is from his experiences that the reader comes to know
Africa and it is from Marlows opinions that one is exposed to what darkness truly is. The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened.
I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me a clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself
without human lips in the heavy night air of the river(Conrad 1990). The majority of the novella takes place as a flashback by a character named Marlowe, who is
a sailor aboard an English ship. He begins to speak with a group of the passengers who are struck by his odd perspective. He tells them that in all his
travels, he reckons London and most of Europe to be the darkest places on the face of the Earth. In order to expound upon his statements, he begins to tell
of his trip to Africa and into The Heart of Darkness. The characteristic of this storyteller is that of one who has traveled into dangerous territories and barely made it
back to tell the tale. He is older than his years, and his words are full of sadness and bittersweet regret(Adelman). His experiences have made him wise and given him
the education that he sought in the beginning of the book, but it is obvious that it has come at a great price. Perhaps you will think it passing strange
this regret for a savage who was no more account than a grain of sand in a black Sahara. Well, dont you see, he had done something, he had
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