Essay on Language in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness -- Heart Darkne

Use of Language in midsection of Darkness Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad is a story that connects the audience to the narrators senses. We go into to understand the environment, the setting, the other charters, and Kurtz strictly from the narrators point-of-view, as he experiences things. We are locked out of Conrads (the narrator in this case) world, allowed to feel provided what he lets us, see the savages as he does, with his eyes, feel with his body. We are not able to see how the world views him. Is he seen as superior, a drone, a sailor? His dream same consciousness navigates us, the readers, stack the river as if we are a part of the flow of things, ripples in the water, patches of the darkness. Conrad uses oral communication to paint images in our minds. He poignantly uses metaphors like, In exterior he resembled a butcher in a poor neighborhood (57) to recompense those images, allow them to breath a bit. His choice of words and word combinations, his poetic al tone, and suave style and smooth transitions craft a sensual experience. He is on the surface talking about the exploration of man in Africa with all of its physical and moral dilemma, and yet the underbelly is the interior of man, an intention to touch the reader at his core. Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a marrow for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing. (104) When Conrad says that the germs of empires floated into mans head , ebbing down the river into the mystery of an unknown earth, his metaphors appeal emotionally to something serious, a comment on the heart of man. (67) Our senses are serenely assaulted with tastes and surfaces, sounds and images. The tremo... ...their hands, like alot of faithless pilgrims fascinate inside a rotten fence. The word ivory rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would figure they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a wh iff from some corpse. By Jove Ive never seen anything so fruitless in my life. And outside the silent wilderness surrounding this clear atom on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like wrong or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion. work Cited and Consulted Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New York Bantam Books, 1981. Ross, Mark. The Roots of Darkness. 1997.http//members.aol.com/mark13/html (9 February 1998) Ross, Mark. The Roots of Racism. 1997. (9 February 1998)