Friday, November 29, 2013

Kelly - Blog 3






Jordan Kelly
British Literature/Composition
Period 6
29 November 2013


Characters help portray the author’s feelings through a literary manner.  In Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, he equips and bases each character with his thoughts and beliefs, filling in holes through the use of the narrator.  However, Kurtz, in particular, is perceived as a mystery for the majority of the play, along with the narrator hinting details every now and then about him.  Based on the details given from the narrator, one could infer that Kurtz is an evil genius.

One could infer that Kurtz can be considered an evil genius because of the details given by the narrator and supporting characters during the conversations with Marlow.  For example, Marlow overheard the manager and his uncle talking about Kurtz and how they think he has a darker secret hidden within his current thoughts of turning Africa into a beacon of civilization-especially after he fell ill after traveling a great distance down the river and turned back.  Kurtz is shown as an intelligent, yet strange, Inner Station chief that seems to be hiding something.  Moreover, the Russian Trader introduced to Marlow about Kurtz’s fiancee and her views on Kurt, further exemplifying Kurtz’s evil genius nature based on the fact that she thinks he’s a genius in itself.  As Marlow floats on closer to Kurtz, so does  the mystery behind the legend begin to unravel.

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