Heart of Darkness7
In just the opening pages of ‘Heart of Darkness’, Conrad’s aptitude as a writer becomes abundantly clear, for the subliminal nature of his writing is constantly sustained. Conrad begins Marlow’s journey into the heart of darkness on the Thames, on the yawl, ‘Nellie’ with a short prologue, which contains subtle use of imagery and a brilliant evocation of the atmosphere that prepares a reader for the prevailing themes of the novel. Each setting in the novel is in fact a microcosm of the larger construction of ‘Heart of Darkness’, and a reader is continually reminded by the repetition of the phrase ‘brooding gloom’, the noun ‘haze, and the adjective ‘dark’ that the novel is full mystery and exploration through the impenetrable darkness, as it were. As a reader transgresses through the novel, he or she is continually taken back to the paradoxical title, ‘Heart of Darkness’. The title in itself is very suggestive, for the noun ‘heart’ is, in a literal sense, characteristic of pure substance, and is very distinct, and on a metaphorical level it conveys that the novel works on an emotional scale. On the other hand, the adjective ‘darkness’ displays something much more inconclusive and equivocal, just like Marlow. Therefore, a reader’
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Approximate Word count = 1456
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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