English Literature: Comment on the Setting of the Novel, Heart of Darkness.

Wednesday 14 February 2018

Comment on the Setting of the Novel, Heart of Darkness.


Setting of the Novel, Heart of Darkness



Heart of Darkness, a novel of Joseph Conrad starts with the name of a cruising yawl, a sailing boat called the Nellie. It stands at anchor in the estuary of the river Thames. There are five men on board the sailing boat which is to sail down the river. It is waiting for the turn of the tide. The group of men on this sailing boat include the director of Companies; the lawyer; the Accountant; Marlow, “sitting cross-legged right aft” and the first narrator, the ‘I’ of the opening paragraph and of the last sentence of the story. 
 
Setting of the Novel Heart of Darkness
 

Marlow’s telling of the story aboard the ship, is appropriately suggestive of one of the main symbols of the book: Marlow’s archetypal voyage of discovery. The Nellie is anchored on the Thames, ‘an interminable waterway’ like the Congo River, the “snake” that tempts Marlow in his Adam-like innocence, to the journey that leads to self- knowledge. It is to be noted that the Nellie is at anchor, at rest—just as are its guest, the five men linked by the “bond of the sea” Again time, which is the flood- time is most symbolically opportune for the voyage Marlow will take. Marlow’s Buddha – like lotus posture serves to accent this deeply introspective atmosphere of contemplation.
 

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