SETTING Flashcards
HoD : ‘when the Romans first came here..’ pg 5-6
‘brass leggings’
TLLTolroy: ‘houses…walls cracking like the last days of Pompeii’
brass leggings : like a Roman soldier’s metal leg guards- by explicitly connecting her with an ancient culture’s most savage element = Conrad stigmatizes her as EXOTIC
HoD: ‘A sky the colour of smoke’
‘sea the colour of lead’
TLL: ‘fog sleeps restlessly’
HoD: ‘flutter of the sails’
TLL: ‘One grim winter evening’
both use setting as beginning differ in persepctives of black and white narrator
HOD: ‘watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma’
two gerunds, paired with two prepositions = inert narrator and subject
HoD: ‘smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage and always mute’
- listing 8 adjectives focuses on ‘MUTE’ through separation= VOICELESS complex dense sentence- Africa = unknowable and obscure= reader struggles to comprehend sentence as Marlow struggles to physically and mentally penetrate africa.
HoD : ‘so dark green as to almost be black’
‘blue sea…blurred by a mist’
TLL: ‘fog sleeps restlessly’
-HOD : doesn’t differentiate two colours = the same = nothing = according to Conrad’s syntax and diction is a nothingness the Europeans cannot understand
-reminds the reader that even though
this continent is represented by a defined shape on maps, Africa is still rich in its mystery
-plosive alliteration ‘blue’ = peacefulness but now aggressive
HOD: beginning = ‘interminable water way’
HOD: ‘The water was treacherous and shallow’
TLL:’one grim winter evening’
‘TLL: ‘blue skies like back home’
‘One grim winter evening’
‘a summer night’ evening= liminial, transitional whereas ‘night’ is more solidified, certain and resoluted.
