Futility In Heart Of Darkness
On page 86 Marlow says "Next day I left that station at last, with a caravan of sixty men, for a two-hundred-mile tramp." This is where his story truly begins in the Heart of Darkness. He travels through burnt grass, thickets, up and down ravines, ablazed with heat, and solitude. He passes through several abandoned villages, he starts at first to admire, then shows no thought of the village's past. "On the fifteenth day I came in sight of the big river again, and hobbled into the Central Station" (87). He watches in disbelief of white men with long staves in their hands appeared, the manager was there so it gave the okay that everything was alright and in check. "It was just two months from the day we left the creek when we came to the bank below
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They are starving and mistreated, and therefore cannot work efficiently, this is due to the treatment from the Europeans, which only hurts their system also, that don't gain from the mistrewatment of slaves either.
Another example is the slowly decreasing of hierarchy in Africa. Kurtz is to be in charge of finding ivory, but instead, he abandons his job and in the mean time loses his civil traits.
Another example of the futility of the Europeans is that they're not good they're not good at navigating and end up taking longer. Marlow has difficulty trying to complete his task because of the stupidity in navigating.
Framework story structure:
Heart of Darkness,frame story structure is a story within a story. Typically authors will use this method to represent a story of their own experience. The author may be wanting to give a deeper meaning to the story representing his own life in a different situation but the same idea. Instead of two hundred mile tramp he may be wanting to express the long ride its taken him to get where he is now and it feels as if he has traveled through many jungles, forests, across river, and
They are starving and mistreated, and therefore cannot work efficiently, this is due to the treatment from the Europeans, which only hurts their system also, that don't gain from the mistrewatment of slaves either.
Another example is the slowly decreasing of hierarchy in Africa. Kurtz is to be in charge of finding ivory, but instead, he abandons his job and in the mean time loses his civil traits.
Another example of the futility of the Europeans is that they're not good they're not good at navigating and end up taking longer. Marlow has difficulty trying to complete his task because of the stupidity in navigating.
Framework story structure:
Heart of Darkness,frame story structure is a story within a story. Typically authors will use this method to represent a story of their own experience. The author may be wanting to give a deeper meaning to the story representing his own life in a different situation but the same idea. Instead of two hundred mile tramp he may be wanting to express the long ride its taken him to get where he is now and it feels as if he has traveled through many jungles, forests, across river, and