HEART OF DARKNESS

Joseph Conrad
QUIZ 1 p.47 - sarcasm: Sir Francis Drake (pirate) described as a knight - sword: conquest, violence; torch: light, civilization, enlightenment (foreshadow: not always a good thing) p.48 - England: was also one of the dark places on earth - Marlow is much like other storytellers, but leaves you in a haze, asks questions in his storytelling * I was thinking ofbut the darkness was here yesterday - the history is so much a part of us, civilization is just a thin veneer (short lived), primitive part of us is the stronger part p.49 * imagine heredarkness - describing when the Romans conquered, used to warm weather, England was cold dark dying, brought disease, but they were man enough to face the darkness (face the primitive (England), dont surrender to it) * or think of a decent | the hate - abomination: destruction, disgusting, abnormal part of who we all are (fascinated by dark things, rubber necking at accidents what happens in the jungle) progression towards the primitive. Regret, longing to escape, powerlessness of disgust, and surrender (become primitive), and then HATE. p.50 * They were conquerorssacrifice to - blind to their own actions because ignorance is bliss: if you dont know/dont look, you dont have to take responsibilities; doesnt call them settlers, called colonists (not physically stronger, but had technology: guns, weapons, boats - only way out, you need to have an idea to rely on, to have a firm belief in something to be able to blindly follow ~~~ - He broke off (Marlow) - great city = London, flood = p.51 - this poor chap: Kurtz (lots of Kurtz or Kurtz-like characters - he doesnt want to go to the North Pole anymore but he has gone to some of them and he has seen the colonies, the glamour is gone, he doesnt want to go there anymore p.52 - river: congo, as a boy he wanted to go to: Africa - congo = snake: long, coiled, poisonous, sinister, evil

- he had to get help from a woman: rubbing against his pride; misogynist ultimate kowtow p.53 *I got my appointment - sarcastic, taking the position of a dead guy: he is delighted; oh it didnt surprise me in the least to hear this, fresleven was kind he surrendered to darkness (was killed by the chief of the natives) - son of the chief stabbed fresleven with an arrow, all the native scattered - they were afraid spirits were gonna kill everyone because they thought of him as godlike - the grass grows up through the bones and start to cover them; jungle itself is a character works really well literally (consumed his bones) and figuratively - the jungle is consuming the bones /~/ the primitive is stronger than the modern - the jungle is not meant for technology NOR the white man p.54 - the city reminds him about a sceplucure (tomb hat consumes bodies to make room for more) -sonambulist: sleepwalker - two ladies knitting: the Fates in Hercules in charge of the length of light p.55 - beckoning with the finger? ghost of Christmas past? - the great man himself, 56 sarcasm random: yellow = insanity, fear/red = passion, anger/blue = innocence p.56 - we who are about to die, salute you Morituri yada yada p.57 - alienist: proto-psychiatrist - warning from the doctor: avoid irritation by going into the sun, avoid primitiveness *It appeared however | - his aunt made it seem like he had been presented to the company as an emissary of light (civilization) like the torch - supposed to wean them from their normal life and bring them into civilization (white mans burden) p.58 *Its queerthing over - we live in this idealistic place, its not real, men have been content with this (but women kind of want to fix this) - men content with the disarray in the garage, but she wants to clean it; they want to organize thing, and they want things to be perfect p.59 - Natives=creatures to be admired (bone, muscle, a wild vitalitylast long) - he thinks: they belong there (should we be bringing the light?) * We came upon a man of war | in the sight; - man of war is a warship

QUIZ 2 p.61 *I came upon awheels in the air.carcassrusty rails

- the jungle takes over technology, mankind is nothing compared to nature mankind/civilization is only a fraction of the time in the world, jungle/wilderness is much stronger p.63 + (work quote) Black shapes croucheddie - busy work, not worth it; hes annoyed with the fact that they are just being given something to dohas no meaning, no passion p. 64 - juxtaposition of ____ dying, white man dressed to perfection in the middle of the jungle (white worsted around his neck) p.65 *I shook hands with this miraclework - Conrad and Marlow are disagreeing: Conrad = doesnt like it, against it (sees what they are doing is wrong); Marlow = great respect for the image of this man (Marlow doesnt know how to react to him) p.66 - flies represent savage, evil, etc. p.67 - tramping through jungle with fat man, chugging uselessly p.68 *I had a companionparasol over a mans headscornfully - disgusting, bad the guy is; judges him by his appearance, thinks its unbearable - the guy faints, inconvenience, holds everyone back (the work/uselessness) - asks him why he came, the guy responds: for the money (people will do anything for money; white men arent suited for the jungle) p.70 * He originated nothing|seal was on - Marlow describes him (manager with an uneasiness, makes him less human, men should have no entrails (no guts), the man has no feelings, he isnt affected by the colonization. effective faculty No fear, no regret, came out 3 times. -capable of ANYTHING, not hindered by anything inspires uneasiness - no external checks: no p.72 - the silent wilderness = jungle (major character); great or invincible (evil/truth) - fire, man comes with a bucket of water with a hole in it, WORK pointless p.73 *The business entrusted | of course - (*) brickmaker has privileges, but he doesnt work (nonworking character) hes always waiting for something (he has a candle); quintessential for the nonworking character - in the brickmakers office, trying to get info from Marlow; painting of a woman (draped, blindfolded, torch) - shes blindfolded shes idealistic to see the truth (ignorance is bliss); sinister somber p.76 - paper mache: hollow; Mephistopholes: evil spirit, Devils servant, went to Faust, sold himself to the devil - brickmaker is a hollow evil spirit who sold himself to the devil

p.77 *I wondered whethercould we handle that dumb thingwas in there (appeal/menace) - appeal (please dont do this to me/request) jungle is telling them to stop, go away - menacing (I dare you, keep coming, I got something for you) - dumb, cant speak; Marlow is contemplating which side the jungle is p.78 - Marlow character trait: doesnt value work, lies = kills them (not trustworthy, kills you, denying yourself) - He was just a word to meextraordinary revolt - Marlow is reflecting, as hes telling the story, he struggles communicating how it happened (it was surreal to him, like a dream) what happened to him was too difficult - Are you understanding what Im saying? - 1st narrator: no quotation marks - river part: narrator bringing us back, reminding us where we are p.79 - rivets: metal pieces you have to heat up to get them to fit together (hooks two metal pieces together) - Rosie the Riveter - he needs to cover the hole trying to make his work useful; someone not getting rivets p.80 - lots of work quotes *No I dont like workwhat it really means - work helps you learn about your life, gives meaning to your life, gives opportunity to identify/sharpen strengths, tells what you are capable of, what you are proud of - the devils workshop, meaningful work attracts Marlow from going to savagery p.82 *This devoted band called themselvesfor the work of the world - the fat guy that Marlow arrived with (fainted a lot) ~ hardihood (wasnt strong enough) - greedy but dont do work steal/scavenger - cruel without courage cyberbully (attack behind) QUIZ 3 p.85 - manager of the expedition is the nephew, speaking to his uncle; SUNNY C. p.86 p.88 - less valuable animals: the managers uncle and his gang pg. 89 -Marlow:the work is keeping his mind focused and maintain sanity, prevent being consumed by abomination, constantly having to navigate the boat, making sure nothing iis in the way of the boat. -During this time late 1800s early 1900s, cannibal was complete opposite of what they knew in their civilization. they were most savage of the savage. marlow respected them because of their real work. look at them as cannibals. these cannibals from a particular tribe. ceremonial. didnt eat people all the time. Marlow sees them as humans. p.91 - conquered monster: the earth, nature; we thought we could tame and control (thats what its like in the world we came from)

- wild and passionate outroar: they doubt that the natives are humans, but they are still basically connected to the white men p.92 - respect the differences, accept the possibilities - what was there at alldeliberate belief - there are differences between principles and beliefs - principles: rules set on you by civilization - beliefs: your internal, deep down in your soul, you cannot live without p. 93 describing a savage that has been taken, specifically trained for a certain job; trained him, dressed him up like dressing a dog up with clothes Marlow thinks its ridiculous, unnatural (white mans burden) - they use superstition to try to get them to do their work 1st the earth seemed unearthly 2nd well you know that was theall the past as well as all the future. 3rd what was there after all joy fear sorrowno you want a deliberate leaf 4th and between whiles I had to look after the savagevengeance p.94 *Not a very enthralling bookprofessional light - hard work done right - cipher (it wasnt cipher, it was Russian) p.96-7 - trying to go upstream in a thick fog (REALLY thick fog) - does strange things to sound, creates another world - represents confusion, lack of vision, going at it blind p.99 *Why in the name...(cannibals)...all my days at that time - the most savage of beasts - hes realizing that they can restrain themselves (showing honor, self control, reason Marlow values them) -Marlow realizes they arent so savage *One cant live without...chaff (useless)...whiteness of the fog - hunger makes them abominations - somehow they have maintained and restrained p.104 - WAR p.107 - Marlow thinks Kurtz is dead as well and hell never get the chance to see him devastated - the other shoe went flyinggive me some tobacco - he was telling the story, then someone sighs and he comes out of the story, responds to him on the boat p.108 the match went out - the original narrator comes back *Absurdany kind of sense - Marlow gets angry because they dont believe him: you guys are sitting here with all this luxury, two anchors that arent going anywhere, food and security butcher/gross stuff: does things for you that you dont want to do - Lord of the Flies: someone kills the meat for them

- no one wants to, but after a while it becomes nbd, you become numb - first mention of a girl other than aunt - Kurtz was taken by the jungle p.109 *you should have heard him sayintendedfaithfulness - its ridiculous to...that he could own something, - made him do everything on his own - solitude has driven him to insanity he thinks he has become god p.110 - to breathe dead hippo and not not being affected buy it and its not difficult enough. ??? - all of Europe contributed: all of Europe should take responsibility for what happened to Kurtz ??? wont be forgotten QUIZ 3 *The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but therethere you could look at a thing monstrous and free.  the earth, nature; we thought we could tame and control (thats what its like in the world we came from) but we cant monstrous and free *Well, you know, that was the worst of itthis suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanitylike yoursthe thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which youyou so remote from the night of first agescould comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anythingbecause everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.  they doubt that the natives are humans, but they are still basically connected to the white men; it was ugly, but you could understand these people because the human mind is capable of seeing the past and future *Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, ragewho can tell?but truthtruth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudderthe man knows, and can look on without a wink. But he must at least be as much of a man as these on the shore. He must meet that truth with his own true stuffwith his own inborn strength. Principles wont do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty ragsrags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.  there are differences between principles and beliefs. principles: rules set on you by civilization. beliefs: your internal, deep down in your soul, you cannot live without. Looking at truth, truth without the disguises we have put over them. You need to meet truth with his own strength, not principles but beliefs *And between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs. A few months of training had done for that really fine chap. He

squinted at the steam-gauge and at the water-gauge with an evident effort of intrepidity and he had filed teeth, too, the poor devil, and the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping his feet on the bank, instead of which he was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge. He was useful because he had been instructed; and what he knew was thisthat should the water in that transparent thing disappear, the evil spirit inside the boiler would get angry through the greatness of his thirst, and take a terrible vengeance.  describing a savage that has been taken, specifically trained for a certain job; trained him, dressed him up like dressing a dog up with clothes Marlow thinks its ridiculous, unnatural (white mans burden); last few lines about evil spirit: white man using superstition to get them to work *Not a very enthralling book; but at the first glance you could see there a singleness of intention, an honest concern for the right way of going to work, which made these humble pages, thought out so many years ago, luminous with another than a professional light.  It wasnt a very exciting book, but you could see that it was written by someone very devoted to his work. It was a book with a purpose. hard work done right *Why in the name of all the gnawing devils of hunger they didnt go for usthey were thirty to fiveand have a good tuck-in for once, amazes me now when I think of it. They were big powerful men, with not much capacity to weigh the consequences, with courage, with strength, even yet, though their skins were no longer glossy and their muscles no longer hard. And I saw that something restraining, one of those human secrets that baffle probability, had come into play there. I looked at them with a swift quickening of interest not because it occurred to me I might be eaten by them before very long, though I own to you that just then I perceivedin a new light, as it werehow unwholesome the pilgrims looked, and I hoped, yes, I positively hoped, that my aspect was not sowhat shall I say? sounappetizing: a touch of fantastic vanity which fitted well with the dream-sensation that pervaded all my days at that time.  the most savage of beasts, hes realizing that they can restrain themselves (showing honor, self control, reason Marlow values them), Marlow realizes they arent so savage. *You should have heard the disinterred body of Mr. Kurtz saying, My Intended. You would have perceived directly then how completely she was out of it. And the lofty frontal bone of Mr. Kurtz! They say the hair goes on growing sometimes, but thisahspecimen, was impressively bald. The wilderness had patted him on the head, and, behold, it was like a ballan ivory ball; it had caressed him, andlo!he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old mud shanty was bursting with it. You would think there was not a single tusk left either above or below the ground in the whole country. Mostly fossil, the manager had remarked, disparagingly. It was no more fossil than I am; but they call it fossil when it is dug up. It appears these niggers do bury the tusks sometimesbut evidently they couldnt bury this parcel deep enough to save the gifted Mr. Kurtz from his fate. We filled the steamboat with it, and had to pile a lot on the deck. Thus he could see and enjoy as long as he could see, because the appreciation of this favour had remained with him to the last. You should have heard him say, My ivory. Oh, yes, I heard him. My Intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst

into a prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. Everything belonged to himbut that was a trifle. The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. That was the reflection that made you creepy all over. It was impossibleit was not good for one eithertrying to imagine. He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the landI mean literally.  its ridiculous to...that he could own something, made him do everything on his own. solitude has driven him to insanity he thinks he has become god *You cant understand. How could you?with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbours ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in the holy terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a mans untrammelled feet may take him into by the way of solitudeutter solitude without a policemanby the way of silenceutter silence, where no warning voice of a kind neighbour can be heard whispering of public opinion? These little things make all the great difference. When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness.  How could you understand when you have all these things in civilizations: police, neighbors, solid ground to stop you from losing control? without those things, you would have to fall back on your own strength, descend to madness, commit dark things *Of course you may be too much of a fool to go wrongtoo dull even to know you are being assaulted by the powers of darkness. I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devilI dont know which. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place and whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I wont pretend to say.  straightforward? *But most of us are neither one nor the other. The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove!breathe dead hippo, so to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, dont you see? Your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff inyour power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business.  This is where your inner strength comes in, your determination to bury those dark feelings deep and focus on some other business. And thats hard to do. QUIZ 4 p.112 - the guy DID SOMETHING, impressed WORK p.114 - they are at Kurtz encampment, description (there was no enclosure, but there one time was some type of fence or enclosure, roughly trimmed) will come again later (cant really see what the ornamentation is) - harlequin = same as the fool that Conrad typically describes p.115 - Russian sailor with the good book p.117 - talking about Kurtz, this guy is saying that Kurtz has enlarged his mind p.120 - Marlow envies the Russian guy because hes true to himself, he was FREE, and he was there just for the adventure

- he didnt want to rape and take from the land p.122 - talking about the ornaments p.123 ??? Katherines reading I am not disclosinginaccess - there was a wanting in his face, could not be found amongst his magnificent eloquence -Mr. Kurtz has lost restraint, hes being swallowed up by all of those things - I think it had whispered to him the forest to Kurta, he was a hollow man - the jungle had taken a horrible vengeance p.126 - jungle as a characters, when the jungle breathes in the natives go in, out they gout p.127 - the woman is the lover of Kurtz p.128 - complement between her^ and the Russian p.129 - choice of nightmares when you arent happy with any of your choices, you still at least have an option, lesser of evils p.130 - the Russian thinks he should get out of there, because he knows theyr going to kill him - natives are ok with the Russian living there because he wants for nothing p.132 - Marlow sees a fire burning, Kurtz should be on the boat but he isnt - Kurtz is the nightmare of a choice - cruel with courage, bold enough to face what he is dealing with; p.133 - drubbing=beating p.134 - Marlow is in danger of getting killed by the natives; bothered by his connection to Kurtz, how he identifies with Kurtz as if hes fighting his own dark side p.135 - Marlow explains that he doesnt believe whats going on? too surreal? And I wasnt arguing with a lunatic eitherget clear - Kurtz has no morals but he still cant stand watching this p.139 - Whats saving him from Kurtz: work, stops him from thinking about that - the horror the horror: allusion to the death of Jesus - it was still a veil had been rent? from Matthew 27:51 -small flies streamped upon the lamp.hands and faces lord of the flies. like the pigs head on a stick.