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Heart Of Darkness Flashcards

1
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Guerard - reversion

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Go ashore for a howl and a dance

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2
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Book - relationship between black and white

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Remote kinship

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3
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Book - repeated darkness

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Brooding gloom

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4
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Book - surface not snags

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Mere incidents of the surface

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5
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Guerard - dreamlike

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Dreamlike quality of the narrative

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6
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Guerard - heart of darkness =

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Deeper region of the mind

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7
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Book - Kurtz & Africans

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On all-fours

Shadow

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8
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Book - cannibals VS whites

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Restraint!

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9
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Book- nightmares

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Choice of nightmares

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10
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Achebe - repeated blackness

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Fixation on blackness

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Achebe - setting

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Setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor

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12
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Achebe - criticism of other critics

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Not one word is spared for his attitude to black people

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13
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Book - fixation on blackness

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A black figure stood up, strode on long black legs waving long black arms

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14
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Book - demonisation

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fiend-like
Gloomy circle of some Inferno
Clinging to the Earth

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15
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Book - dehumanisation

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Black shapes
Black shadows
Acute angles
Improved specimen

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16
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Book - Africa

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Mute
Pitiless
Brutal
Monstrous

17
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Book - jungle untamed

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Vegetation rioted

18
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Guerard - silence on horrors

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They must remain unspoken

19
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Guerard - changed

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He returns to Europe a changed and more knowing man

20
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Book - changed perception of Africans

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Dark human shapes

21
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Book - criticism of colonialism

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There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding

22
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Book - amazonian woman

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Wild and gorgeous

23
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Book - Sinister Intentions

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Tear treasure out of the bowels of the land…burglars breaking into a safe

24
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Book - Maps

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Blank space

White patch

25
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Book - lawlessness

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anything can be done in this country

He declared he would shoot me…had a fancy for it

26
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Book - Kurtz & darkness

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Darkness claimed him for their own

27
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Guerard - temptation

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“temptation of atavism”

28
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Guerard - possibility

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potentialities of self

29
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Achebe - foil

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A foil to Europe

Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as “the other world”, the antithesis of Europe and therefore civilization

30
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Achebe - contrast

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Savage counterpart to the refined

31
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Achebe - dehumanising

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The very humanity of black people is called in question

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