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.
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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