Literary Techniques in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
...so eavesdropping on. He says that he is so startled that he “leap[s] to [his] feet and look[s] back at the edge of the forest, as though [he] expect[s] an answer of some sort to that black display of confidence” (29). He feels the forest is the mother of all things within her and is protecting them from the evils of the white man. Love,hate. Light,dark. Life,death. Many dualities exist around us as well as within us. Marlow and his crew are traveling. They are now about 8 miles below the Inner Station. Here they rest for the night. In the morning, “there was a white fog, very warm and clammy, abd more blinding than the night” (35). Truth is more blinding than darkness. The light represents truth in life. In our world, conciousness involves time and dualities. Conciousness is a “mixture of all the levels of awareness, an unending flow of sensations, thoughts, memories,associations, and reflections” (429). Marlow is aboard a ship when the ship becomes under attack: “sticks, little st...