reasons for writing the book

Showing life through words is a hard thing for anyone to do, but to get it across the way that Joseph Conrad does in the Heart of Darkness. That is something all on its own there is many ways to comprehend this novella, and all can be right but you have to be able to back up your opinion.  Conrad wanted to show about society ignorance to the blight of others, and how the people of this tiny blue planet are always looking for and sometimes not knowing is better that discovering.

There are approximately six point eight seven billion human beings on this planet today, but there is about half of  (five point two eight billion) living in North America blind to everything that is happening in other countries.  So why would someone or even try to buy working through the pain unpleasantly of a friend or co-worker.  “In the steady buzz of flies the homeward-bound agents was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfect correct transactions; and fifty feet below the doorstep I could see the still tree-tops of the grove of death”(Joseph Conrad. Heart of darkness and other tales, pg. 160) why does this strike me as something so bad but when we see it in video games, it is fine?  With that being said how can people be so devoted to efficiency that we cannot even tend to our sick and dying friends or co-workers?  It is quite obvious that that most of people have are largely apathetic to the lives of other people, like the guy trying to put out the fire with a bucket with the hole in it.  But people also think that even if they do something the will not be able to help in any way.

It is said that knowing is half the battle but what about that stuff that is better not knowing.  Examples to this are the government will kill people who know too much about the things that they do not want people to grasp with the special operations (conspiracy theories).  So why is it that we as a race, will give up an arm and a leg to know the truth and sometimes even get killed?  “I raised my head.  The offing was barred by banks of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky – seemed to lead into a heart of an immense darkness” (heart of darkness and other stories, pg252) darkness is like the fog of war, meaning the area that is unknown.  So basically Conrad is trying to say that some things are better to keep a secret and secrets can keep us sane.

Life through a looking glass is a sight to behold.  Granted it takes a lot of science to get the lens to work properly.  So this is why it takes a lot of work get the words to show you the true meaning.  But no matter what way you look at is you can get a different prospective, a glimpse of the truth if you will.  And Kurtz finally found the realism of his decline to madness and a reference on the last page from that Latin phrase “fiat justitia, ruat caelum “or “let justice be done, even though the heavens fall” (both from, Heart of Darkness and Other Stories, pg276).  That is why he must have wrote the book.

references

Joseph Conrad, heart of darkness and other tales,pg 160, 252, 276 oxford world’s classics,  oxford university press inc. Sept 25/2003.

lessons from book one

obviously the moods portrayed by the sentence structure in Joseph Conrad, heart of darkness  has a huge effect in the way we read the first part of book one.he uses long and drawn out sentences , and s noisiness  to attempt to get the reader to see the untamed beast of society.  But as Marlow, Conrad’s main character moves further off into the largely feral wilderness of the Congo, he starts to use more,  short, abrupt sentence , symbolizing the long journey that Marlow takes to get to his destination.  you can plainly see the ignorance of society is well very apathetic  for instance the chief accountant sits blindly counting his money while one of his men are dyeing at his feet.  Many things are learned about the book, the world, and your-self in book one.

In my opinion the largest thing that a reader would learn about the book from just reading book one is how blind we can be as people; to be so devoted to efficiency that we cant even see the people dyeing just inches from our faces. for instance watching friends  last night there was a man saying that he was going to “kill him self a work and no one even lifted their heads” from their work

 

references

Friends.  Bright, Kevin.  NBC.  Aug 3 /2003. Television

heart of darkness post #1

while ogling through the few pages that we as an English class have read, I have learned this is a blood perplex novella.  And to add words like “somnambulist” and  “luminous” (but if you are in grade twelve you should know this word anyways) just don’t help the conundrum.  Although to be fair this is a university level book and it is unduly difficult to look under the words for the deeper meaning when I am having a callous time just reading the words.