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I have read this novel multiple times throughout school and college and every time it is a powerful read about greed and imperialism
Heart of Darkness is something that tends to come up as a literary metaphor for something, and I thought I should read it to understand why. I'm still not entirely convinced, I think I'll keep using Lord of the Flies to reference the savage nature waiting to be unleashed within humanity, rather than the very, very, very dark jungles, and natives waiting to infect us with their savagery. Although to be honest, I don't tend to reference cruel natures being unleashed in situations away from civilis
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Nov 23, 2011
Sunflower
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Heart of Darkness is very short, but for the time in which it was written packs a punch. I personally don't think it is Conrad's best work, though. Certainly it is a comment on colonisation, greed, and the degradation of civilised behaviour, (and probably a whole lot more that I didn't get) but it carries with it the racism of the time.
Weirdly, I didn't feel it was "dark" enough- those final words of Kurtz's (The Horror! the horror!) just didn't do it for me; I felt strangely let down. Was he r ...more
Weirdly, I didn't feel it was "dark" enough- those final words of Kurtz's (The Horror! the horror!) just didn't do it for me; I felt strangely let down. Was he r ...more
I know that this book is supposed to be a classic but I found it torture to read. I read it for a Film and Lit class in college and we had to read this and watch "Apocalypse Now." The book is only 90 pages or so and I remember thinking I'd be able to knock it out before my afternoon class and it was so heavy it took me hours and hours to get through it. I did appreciate reading it along with the movie and maybe I'd feel differently about it if I tried to read it again now without the time constr
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Good narration by Kenneth Brannagh, but I just didn't get it. ...more
Jun 30, 2008
Christina
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May 21, 2009
Tank
marked it as to-read
Sep 26, 2011
Harold Ogle
marked it as to-read
