Heart+of+Darkness+-+the+language

=//Heart of Darkness//: the language =

Well, here is the page that will be used to consider Conrad's use of language, which, as you will see, is incredibly rich.

Some excellent points made here, Daman. Good effort.
 * **There are some interesting language being used in the first chapter of the book.**
 * **The first one is the description of the river Thames: "the old river" "the sleepless river" "interminable waterway" "the venerable stream"**
 * **All these descriptions give the river a personified effect, suggesting that the river has been watching since the beginning of time and there is nothing older than it.**
 * **The river is a personification of an old man. It saw the land being conquered and the mass murder; however, it just watched and did nothing, just like how an old wise man would do**
 * **The river here can also be interpreted as a symbol for time or the past**
 * He uses a lot of emotional and dramatic detail to personify things. An example would be when he described the sunset as "stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men." This in a way reflects the overall theme of colonialism/imperialism; the sunset is described as the victim of colonialism.
 * He tends to write in long, structured paragraphs rather than short paragraphs to get his depiction across in the best way possible for him.
 * he tends to stray away from dialogue, instead, preferring to almost tell the reader what the characters an thinking, though not in a blunt, readily apparent way. Good - do you know what kind of narratorial style this is called? Try and find out...