Quotes - Heart of Darkness

Question 1

pg 13 women

Answer 1

“It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own”.

Question 2

pg 17 seeing Africans

Answer 2

“I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck”.

Question 3

pg 51 men

Answer 3

“Big and powerful men, with not much capacity to weigh the consequences”.

Question 4

pg 60 women

Answer 4

“They—the women I mean—are out of it—should be out of it. We must help them stay in that beautiful
world of their own”.

Question 5

Pg. 63 Kurtz’ report

Answer 5

“Must necessarily appear to them [savages] (sic) in the nature of supernatural beings—we approach them
with the might as of a deity”.

Question 6

pg 78 women

Answer 6

“Savage and superb, wild-eyed” “barbarous”

Question 7

pg 93, 95 about Kurtz

Answer 7

“universal genius”.

“vile desires”.

Question 8

pg 5 colonialism

Answer 8

“it was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale […] what redeems it is the idea only”