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M. Forster, who disparaged the very ambiguities that other critics found so interesting, and the African novelist Chinua Achebe, who criticized the novel and Conrad as examples of European racism.\nKey Facts\nFull Title:  Heart of Darkness\nAuthor: Joseph Conrad\nType of Work: Novella (between a novel and a short story in length and scope)\nGenre: Symbolism, colonial literature, adventure tale, frame story, almost a romance in its insistence on heroism and the supernatural and its preference for the symbolic over the realistic\nKey Facts\nTime and Place Written: England, 1898–1899; inspired by Conrad’s journey to the Congo in 1890\nDate of First Publication: Published in 1902 in the volume Youth: A Narrative; and Two Other Stories\nNarrator: There are two narrators: an anonymous passenger on a pleasure ship, who listens to Marlow’s story, and Marlow himself, a middle-aged ship’s captain.\nPoint of View: The first narrator speaks in the first-person plural, on behalf of four other passengers who listen to Marlow’s tale. Marlow narrates his story in the first person, describing only what he witnesses and experiences, and provides his own commentary on the story.\nKey Facts\nTone: Ambivalent: Marlow is disgusted at the brutality of the Company and horrified by Kurtz’s degeneration, but he claims that any thinking man would be tempted into similar behavior.\nSetting (time): Latter part of the nineteenth century, probably sometime between 1876 and 1892\nSetting (place): Opens on the Thames River outside London, where Marlow is telling the story that makes up Heart of Darkness. Events of the story take place in Brussels, at the Company’s offices, on the Congo, and a Belgian territory.\nProtagonist: Charlie Marlow\nKey Facts\nMajor Conflict: Both Marlow and Kurtz confront a conflict between their images of themselves as “civilized” Europeans and the temptation to abandon morality completely once they leave the context of European society.\nRising Action: The brutality Marlow witnesses in the Company’s employees, the rumors he hears that Kurtz is a remarkable man, and the numerous examples of Europeans breaking down mentally or physically in the environment of Africa.\nClimax: Marlow’s discovery, upon reaching the Inner Station, that Kurtz has completely abandoned European morals and norms of behavior.\nFalling Action: M","cbCaiuYMO5YDJcbN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuYMO5YDJcbN","ppt",3313152,33,"English","# Heart of Darkness\n## Why the Blurriness?\n## Conrad’s View\n## About the Novel\n## Key Facts\n## Major Conflict and Plot Structure\n## Motifs and Symbols\n## The “Order” of HD’s Structure\n## Heart of Darkness as a Modernist Novel\n## Questions to Consider as You Read","[{\"question\":\"What is the main idea behind the novel’s “blurriness” and ambiguity?\",\"answer\":\"The text argues that novelists avoid simplifying meaning, instead recreating the experience’s complexities and darkness. 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