Structure Flashcards
Stream of consciousness TLL
fluidity between races
mimics the madness and chaos associated with the belied of black men and white women being sexual
Homodiegetic narrator
acousmatic nature emphasises lack of clarity and abnormality which arises due to the unfamiliar nature of a ‘Jamaican fellar taking two home’
- links to feelings of immigrants both inside and outside english culture
Heart of Darkness stream of consciousness
- fragmentation, a lot of changes in tense
- ‘i thought’ to ‘we are’ pg 47
- link to lonely londoners change in tense
- our brains work in an illogical manner, rather than a linear one
Modernism HOD
- Conrad wrote at the beginning of modernist era, at a prototype stage
Modernism TLL
Selvon by using modernism uses white man’s voice get his thoughts across
HoD: ‘she walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths’‘with a slight jingle’
iambic trimeter to trochaic feet to altered form of iambic meter- muddled metre, clearly present difficult to define
CONTRASTINGLY:
The Lonely Londoners- prose ‘Moses Aloetta hop on a number 46 bus’= avoids thickly accented dialect, can hear his accent but don’t have to struggle to understand it
Heart of Darkness: ‘the hero’s journey’
- sets out on adventure, crisis, conquers, returns home transformed by the victory
- Marlow’s journey is not transformative in the traditional sense; returns haunted instead of victorious
- ambivalent ending- mood is ponderous and heavy
Heart of Darkness: ENDING ‘sombre under an overcast sky’
- prepositions, mood becomes ponderous and heavy
- contrasts to light bright semantic field at the start: ‘flutter’