SA- Literary Form

Question 1

Narration

Answer 1

Third person omniscient narration- gods eye view of characters

Question 2

How does the narrator help us understand characters?

Answer 2

Weaves in and out of characters minds and helps us empathise with nasty characters- makes them human.

Question 3

Mix in person.

Answer 3

Early in the novel, the narrator is in the first person and then third person- used as a distancing technique by Conrad.

Popular in Victorian literature- transferred to modern.

Question 4

Tone

Answer 4

Ironic and satirical.
Example: ‘centre of an empire in which the sun never sets’- contrasts with the idea that the sun never appears to rise in London- comment on colonial nature of Britain- slap in the face.

Question 5

Writing style.

Answer 5

Dense and elliptical.

Switches direction mid sentence- shows the difficult and complicated nature of society at the time.

Meandering prose- nothing is as it seems- links to the content

Question 6

Title

Answer 6

Provocative as even though the book deals with complex issues such as terroism, he does it in a very simple way. Is he making fun of us?

We are not as important as we think- general theme of the novel.