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Joseph Conrad 1857-1924 - Coggle Diagram
Joseph Conrad 1857-1924
life and works
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worked as a mariner, experiencing the brutality of colonialism.
general feature
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conflict between personal feelings and professional duties,
characters are lonely heroes, with no past and commetted to the future
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Heart of Darkness, plot
since Kurtz is ill, Marlow manages to bring him home but the man dies
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while there he sees the cruelty of colonial exploitation and meets Kurtz, a white company agent who is idolized by natives.
setting, themes and style
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style
language is idiomatic speech, ironic and specific of sailors
many frames (a first narrator and then Marlow), with many shifts back and forth.
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