Heart of Darkness

full text of the novella: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ConDark.html

Heart of Darkness study guide: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/heart

Heart of Darkness Seminar

Archetypes and the Monomyth

Jung: "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry"

Archetypes

The White Man's Burden

"The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling (1899): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html

Historical Context: The Belgian ivory trade in Afrcia in the late 19th century: http://www.answers.com/topic/heart-of-darkness-novel-5

Heart of Darkness test:  hod test 3.doc

Nietzsche and the will to power:

http://books.google.com/books?id=m4FpCC8FX30C&lpg=PP1&ots=kV99NIDCqr&dq=beyond%20good%20and%20evil&pg=PA297#v=twopage&q=will%20to%20power&f=false

Daily Questions

Part 1

Where is The Nellie?

How does Marlow get his job with the Company?

Why is Marlow uneasy during his interview at company headquarters?

Describe the chaos at the company's station in Africa.

How did Marlow's steamer get damaged?

Explain how Marlow's "reputation precedes him" when he arrives at the Inner Station.

What does the bricklayer mean when he describes Kurtz as an "emissary of pity and science and progress, and devil knows what else"?

What is the Eldorado Exploring Expedition?

Part 2

Why does the abandoned camp Marlow finds on the river make him uneasy?

How and why is Marlow's steamer attacked?

Identify: "Exterminate the brutes."

Why does the company want to remove Kurtz from his station?

Cold Call Discussion Questions

Part I

What does the narrator connote or suggest about Marlow by calling him "ascetic"?

What is ironic about the narrator's describing Marlow's upcoming story as an "inconclusive experience"?

Based on the Roman soldier emblem, what happened to Marlow when he became a "fresh water sailor"?

Look up Morituri te salutant. How does the allusion deepen our understanding of the passage? What does it foreshadow?

Any other allusions in the passage?

What is ironic about Marlow's dreading the weak-eyed devil more than the lusty devils that drive men?

rapacious: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rapacious

insidious: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insidious

Interpret the native wearing the worsted wool around his neck on the allegorical / political level.

Part III