Often times people have wrong ideas about information, and that we must know all of the facts in order to get a clear picture or concept. Yet as we live our own separate lives we learn that this is not the case, in reality the things of upmost importance are left unsaid. This is the situation we are in when reading the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. As you weave your way through the ironic text of this novel you'll start to wonder what exactly does the author want us to know? As readers we are given an interesting character, Marlow an enigma you try to decipher in order to acquire information for the unanswered questions in your heads. The use of irony puches this novel forward or rather, back and forth. Conrad makes his readers think and rethink every word and action, every situation Marlow faces.
Surprisingly one figures out that the original narrator wasn't narrating the story at all in this intriguing story. He is i fact retelling the story told to him by the real narrator, Marlow. This makes you stop and think as readers, when you find out that the identity of the real narrator is unknown, what is determined?
Something that was subject to questioning was Marlow's attitude towards the natives. It remains uncertain if Conrad is using his irony when mentioning the european' "noble task". One thing is certain though, and that is that Marlow was shaken by what he witnessed in Africa, that's probably the reason why this story is beng told in the first place. Where is he leading us? What should we expect? What's determined, and the truth is?
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