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CONRAD
Hearth of Darkness
exotic setting
adventurous plot
Condrad's Congo experience
new techniques
time-shifts
past
present
narrators
other companions without a specific name
losse their identity
Marlow
Kuntz
double personality
negative side of a men (Kuntz)
criticism of colonialism in Africa
represented by Kurtz
cruel not only against black people but for his pleasure
dark side of the men
savage and brutal against black men
used as an excuse to civilize them
pessimistic point of view of the situation in colonial countries
life
parents died when he was 12
born in Ukraine
1868- joined a British merchant ship
learned the language
1890 went in River Congo
important experience
obsession for him
he wrote Heart of Darkness
died in 1924
TEXT
description of landscape
destroyed by colonialiasts
natives are chained 8incatenati)
the nature is demaged 8pollution and destruction)
Marlox arrives at one of the Company's sites