Is this a story of the mind or body?“‘I always ask leave, in the interests of

science, to measure the crania of those going out there,’ he said. ‘ And when they come back too?’ I asked. ‘Oh, I never see them,’ he remarked, ‘and, moreover the changes take place inside, you know.’… ‘Are you an alienist?’ I interrupted. ‘Every doctor should be- a little,’ answered that original imperturbably” (9).

CLEAR YOUR DESKS FOR A 25 QUESTION QUIZ.

Swap papers

Grade part 1 questions.

This week:

Each night, reread the section that will be discussed the next day.

Part 2: 27-38 (Tuesday)Close reading: AP Multiple Choice practicePart 2: 38-50 (Wednesday)Vocabulary QuizPart 3: 50-62 (Thursday)Passage ExplicationPart 3: 62-72 (Friday)Close reading: AP Multiple Choice practice

Key Facts

Point 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 witnessed and experienced, and providing his own commentary on the story.

Setting (time)

· Latter part of the nineteenth century, probably sometime between 1876 and 1892

Setting (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, and in the Congo, then a Belgian territory.

Protagonist· Marlow

Motifs· Darkness (very seldom opposed by light),

interiors vs. surfaces (kernel/shell, coast/inland, station/forest, etc.), ironic understatement, hyperbolic language, inability to find words to describe situation adequately, images of ridiculous waste, upriver vs. downriver/toward and away from Kurtz/away from and back toward civilization (quest or journey structure)

Symbols· Rivers, fog, women (Kurtz’s Intended, his

African mistress), French warship shelling forested coast, grove of death, severed heads on fence posts, Kurtz’s “Report,” dead helmsman, maps, “white sepulcher” of Brussels, knitting women in Company offices, man trying to fill bucket with hole in it

Foreshadowing· Permeates every moment of the narrative—

mostly operates on the level of imagery, which is consistently dark, gloomy, and threatening

Conrad uses several image clusters in Heart of Darkness – images of brightness, gloom, isolation, madness, physical decomposition, [diabolism, and violent death].

Choose one of these images and mark four specific examples of the image cluster in the text. (everyone should chose a different image cluster.)

images of brightness, gloom, isolation, madness, physical decompositionBrightness Gloom Isolation Madness Physical

decomposition

Multiple Choice passages

Read both passages and answer the ten multiple choice questions. Next to each answer option write why or why not the answer option is not correct.

These will be graded and counted as a quiz grade.