reasons for writing
People write stories, poems, and other works in order to express feelings, beliefs, or situations to other people. Associating nature with the character's feelings is one way authors enforce the role the character's feeling has on the story. Colerigde's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" expresses a connection between the Ancient Mariner's feelings and nature. Other authors show psychological irony through a character's insulting descriptions of another person, innocent of the cruel accusations, while they expose their own bad attitude and twisted view of the world. In Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" a holy monk tells the reader about an unholy monk, and all through the poem he manages to describe himself and expose his feelings that are anything but holy. Authors use nature to set the mood of the story and to affect the characters psychologically. In Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" Marlow feels a darkness and uncertainty as he leaves Europe and ventures deep !into Africa. Authors use the feeling of a character to set the mood, provide irony, or to base the story upon. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" appears guided by the Mariner's feelings toward life. The Mariner begins the journey with a cold heart and his
Conrad takes feeling to a different level with "Heart of Darkness". In the story Marlow enters a whole different culture where something he once thought as real became a shell mimicking reality and hiding the truth. He feels awkward when he arrives in Africa then he feels awkward when he arrives home. At his arrival home he says, " I found my self back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets". Marlow interprets Africa as a darkness because to him it is a place he knows hardly anything about and it is drastically different that where he lives; Africa shows the darkness of the truth other people try to hide and Marlow expresses fear to this truth. He busies him self with "surface truth" so he can ignore the dark truth lurking all around him. Away from his homeland he is able to feel the earth and nature and realizes the power of nature. He says, "We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there - there! you could look at a thing monstrous and free". In Africa Marlow feels nature's freedom but he also feels the darkness of the truth. When he speaks to Kurt's girl and lies to her about Kurt's last words he feels bad about lying but feels the truth would be too dark. He says, " I couldn't tell her. It would have been too
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