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by nomtiff
Mon May 03, 2010 11:55 pm
Forum: Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad
Topic: Literary Element Homework
Replies: 17
Views: 12732

Re: Literary Element Homework

Copy & Pasted from my post on the other thread: For me, I feel like the life and death are contrasting elements in HOD. The river is like a dark matter to me. It's a place of death so I feel like after people fall in or get thrown or pushed into the river they enter a different world, the underw...
by nomtiff
Mon May 03, 2010 12:50 am
Forum: Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad
Topic: Motifs
Replies: 18
Views: 13499

Re: Motifs

Definitely the darkness, decay, river, gloomy, death, the sense of being watched, and being locked in could be motifs for this novel.
I think these could be leading to Marlow and the crew will end up finding something gruesome after they reach the end, maybe.
by nomtiff
Mon May 03, 2010 12:40 am
Forum: Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad
Topic: Contrasting Elements
Replies: 24
Views: 17463

Re: Contrasting Elements

For me, I feel like the life and death are contrasting elements in HOD. The river is like a dark matter to me. It's a place of death so I feel like after people fall in or get thrown or pushed into the river they enter a different world, the underworld. Then the people are just doing what they do, l...
by nomtiff
Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:16 am
Forum: Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad
Topic: VI- Heart of Darkness: the title.
Replies: 47
Views: 32019

Re: VI- Heart of Darkness: the title.

For me the title means, literally speaking, the part of Africa where the Congo was located and how it was called the Heart of darkness. I also think that because its where Marlow is traveling to and its dark and full of the unknown. They had said that there were no survivors that came back after tra...

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