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What motifs do you notice and what theme do you see these motifs leading us (the readers) toward?

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i kind notice that there is always a gloomy and somewhat depressing feeling in the mood of the story, kinda like a white on gray painting. i guess its like how most people say that the theme might be about the darkness in the heart of the people. though i kinda feel like its more like the author is trying to make the story more depressing and dark to match the story and give it a more powerful effect.

Deaths theres a lot of deaths in this book. So i think death is a motif not sure what it leads the reader to know, but i know that it helps provide a theme for the book, develope a tone, and a mood.

There's always a reoccurring thingy about the unsolved mysteries of that still lie in wait for Marlow, So i definitely feel that Mystery is a motif. Another motif would be how the author address's such death going on with a gloomy atmosphere. I guess what I'm trying to say is the manner of how the author deals with death?

I think Dark is a motif, because the book so far has a really dark feeling to it.

It seems that the motifs that exist in the story live inside the mood and setting and are basically the darkness that exists in Marlow's mind as well as the environment he is in. The entire plot focuses on the conditions of the societies of that time where they had to hide in darkness which may have been ignorance or pride to feel that they were doing something right.

L2c wrote:i kind notice that there is always a gloomy and somewhat depressing feeling in the mood of the story, kinda like a white on gray painting. i guess its like how most people say that the theme might be about the darkness in the heart of the people. though i kinda feel like its more like the author is trying to make the story more depressing and dark to match the story and give it a more powerful effect.

I like your analogy and your post about your opinion on the theme of the story.

I think the enlightenment of the mind is a motif that we have observed many times with Marlow. He wished as a child to the Congo not knowing what would happen. He now learned of what is the truth of the Congo and he has reached the point of no return.

I think some motifs is darkness, evil, and abandonment. The story is a negative one, with depressing tones.