Heart Of Darkness Flashcards
Guerard - reversion
Go ashore for a howl and a dance
Book - relationship between black and white
Remote kinship
Book - repeated darkness
Brooding gloom
Book - surface not snags
Mere incidents of the surface
Guerard - dreamlike
Dreamlike quality of the narrative
Guerard - heart of darkness =
Deeper region of the mind
Book - Kurtz & Africans
On all-fours
Shadow
Book - cannibals VS whites
Restraint!
Book- nightmares
Choice of nightmares
Achebe - repeated blackness
Fixation on blackness
Achebe - setting
Setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor
Achebe - criticism of other critics
Not one word is spared for his attitude to black people
Book - fixation on blackness
A black figure stood up, strode on long black legs waving long black arms
Book - demonisation
fiend-like
Gloomy circle of some Inferno
Clinging to the Earth
Book - dehumanisation
Black shapes
Black shadows
Acute angles
Improved specimen
Book - Africa
Mute
Pitiless
Brutal
Monstrous
Book - jungle untamed
Vegetation rioted
Guerard - silence on horrors
They must remain unspoken
Guerard - changed
He returns to Europe a changed and more knowing man
Book - changed perception of Africans
Dark human shapes
Book - criticism of colonialism
There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding
Book - amazonian woman
Wild and gorgeous
Book - Sinister Intentions
Tear treasure out of the bowels of the land…burglars breaking into a safe
Book - Maps
Blank space
White patch
