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Heart of Darkness
Part II
Introduction The trip carries on, deeper and deeper into the Heart of
Darkness
Quotes Find the following quotes as you read. Who said them, and why do you think
they’re important? Identify page numbers as you read.
1. "Wood for you. Hurry up. Approach cautiously.’
2. "I authorize you to take all the risks."
3. "I laid the ghost of his gifts at last with a lie."
4. "You don’t talk with that man–you listen."
5. "This man has enlarged my mind."
Questions:
Answer the following questions fully. Identify
page numbers where the answers can be found
when appropriate. Questions with a * will be
discussed in class- attempt to answer on your own
first! Highlight any questions about which you are
unsure.
1. How does the station manager survive?
How does he plan to "beat" Kurtz?
2. Who was the crew of the steamboat?
How were they more civilized than the pilgrims?
What, then, is the definition of civilized here?
3. What do the drums symbolize?
4. What does the phrase "The earth seemed
unearthly" mean? Of what literary term is this an
example?
*What does the phrase "that was the worst of us, the
suspicion that they weren’t inhuman" seem to mean/
indicate?
5. What book do they discover?
What is admirable about the book?
6. When they wake up, eight miles from the station,
what has happened?
What color is the fog?
*Why do you suppose that is?
7. Why does Marlow say the natives will not attack?
8. How does the helmsman die?
How does Marlow drive the natives away?
9. What is Kurtz’s head like?
How does Conrad make that significant?
11. What was Kurtz’s paper about?
*What is odd about it?
What does he compare the scribble with at the end?
12. What role does the harlequin have?