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This 4 page paper discusses the narrative form that Joseph Conrad uses in his classic “Heart of Darkness.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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story. Discussion The narrator of the story, Marlow, is an unreliable narrator, a term that is used to describe the narrator of a story who either deliberately or inadvertently "tricks"
the reader. Edgar Allan Poe uses these characters a lot; the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" for instance tries to convince readers hes not insane, when clearly he is. A
reader cannot trust what this type of narrator says. Marlow is unreliable because he is holding back vital information from Kurtzs fianc?e, which means that we have to question just
how much of the rest of his story is true. If he is taking it upon himself to censor certain pieces of information because he is afraid they will be
too terrible for her to handle, we cannot be sure hes not doing the same thing all the way through. We "see" and "hear" the people in the narrative
through the narrators eyes, which means that we also see them through the filter of his prejudices. The novella is perhaps the classic quest story of modern literature, where the
trip up the river to find Kurtz is the physical analog to the mental and spiritual journey of Kurtz, Marlow and other whites who come to Africa and find themselves
overwhelmed by it. One example of the way in which Marlow puts his interpretation on things is revealed when he says that sometimes the steamer ran aground: "More than once
she had to wade for a bit, with twenty cannibals splashing around and pushing. We had enlisted some of these chaps on the way for a crew. Fine fellow-cannibals-in their
place" (Conrad 93). On one had, he is praising them for their hard work, on the other, he is setting himself up as superior to them because hes white ("in
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