Heart of Darkness Comment

I found it extremely interesting when the raider and his nephew were discussing the dying mules. This was then connected the officials sent into Africa! I loved this connection because it's so accurate. The men are shipped into Africa just as the mules are herded into a region and then eventually die out.

Marlow: Blacks are inferior

According to Marlow, Africans can't control their ids because they are uncivilized. This is relevant to Freud's belief of uncontrollable desires every human has that a society suppresses. Since African society is more wild and "barbaric" they are free to express their inner most darkest desires that whites can't. 

Marlow might even connote their skin tone to their darkness both moral and physical. White society has made the British "pure" and superior because their ids are controlled and restrained due to European society. 

Comment

I found it extremely interesting how he described the baren land and the settlements the English constructed. He was very negative.

HOD connection to Freud

Africa acts as Euope's playground that allows colonialists to fully fulfill their darkest and filthiest desires. By doing so the Europeans that penetrate into Africa's inner most sanctum reach their internal peak by fulfill sinful desire that their homeland of England would not allow. This connects to Freud because Freud states that society restrains its citizens and suppresses animalistic tendencies Freud states we naturally have since birth. This take over of a free and wild land by already restrained men demonstrates the human struggle to realeaese our inner beasts, something Freud believes we all contain in the deepest and darest realm of our minds.

Marlow's narration

As a sarcastic narrator Marlow makes the reader have to read between the lines countless times. One example is the scene where the map of Africa contains red.

HOD

After reading the next five pages I see how the author gets lost in the descriptions and details of his surroundings. The fundamentally brings the reader under some sort of long and lush trance.

Heart of Darkness

The beginning of Heart of Darkness sets the reader on a very long path towards a journey. By beginning with a snap shot of time , an anchoring ship, the author places an emphasis on stillness and allows the reader to take the situation into perspective and really become a part of the lavish and dangerous journey the author took when he went to Africa. The stillness of the ship at the beginning of the book personally gave me a foreshadowing of a glacial pace which I'm assuming the story will move at. Although the journey may span over several descriptive pages I've always been intrigued by this era of conquest and colonization in Africa which is why I'm extremely excited to get through the book.