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Subject: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) Apocalypse Now (1979) directed by Francis Ford Coppola Further Studies: Heart of Darkness (1993) directed by Nicolas Roeg
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đź’ˇ Key Points:
- Main Ideas
- Key words
- Questions that connect points
- Important points
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✏️ Notes:
Main lecture notes
- The Nellie, a cruising yawl
- A novella
- Post modern transition? objective
- Marlowe the narrator and Frame narration which is a transition element
- “Following the sea”
- Lighthouse symbolism
- Mysterious sea- Darkness- Light
- Believeing in dreams is it scientific or not
- Human mind vs Human Brain
- Phisical or Irrational
- Reason and Mind
- Demythization*
- Novel belongs to the middle class way of life
- Lies of the Novel Analysis of Marxist pov
- Realistic Novel
- Heart of Darkness has modernist elements
- compare to Mrs Dolloway?
- Realistic representations of the novella
- Conrad= Ukraine born English, his first language is not English,
- post colonial studies rose the Heart of Darkness
- Does the Racist elements makes it racist? Do you agree or not?
- It mirrors the reality
- Language is neutral
- Analytics were sensitive pussies that took the book too literal and cried about the “n word”
- Representations of the Bad causes the bad writer? No it mirrors the situation so it is not bad writing grow the fuck up
- Why is the narration so important?
- Allegorical motifs
- Blackness Darkness is symbolic
- “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it”
- Frame narration
- Modernism
- Stream of Consciousness
- First unnamed narrator and Marlowe as narrator
- Horror Horror importance?
- When do we idealize?
- Epiphany some sudden awakening, Origins = James Joyce
- Comic Dramatic Tragic changes meaning
- The language makes the novella journalistic
- Figurative and symbolic language in a frame narration
- IVORY= purity, elegance
- Contextual meaning of the ivory? Ivory trade
- Transitional components of Modern Realistic novel
- Concept is eternal
- Human nature does not change
- Themes? Symbols? Title is symbolic? Congo the Place
- Improving over the river =
- “The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future”
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đź“Ž Summary:
A brief summary and conclusion about the notes/lecture
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