English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1504 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Heart of Darkness
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The idea
Heart of Darkness, an eighteen ninety-nine novella, tells how the sailor Charles Marlow is sent up an African river for a Belgian company to find Kurtz, an ivory trader who has scrawled "Exterminate all the brutes!" Kurtz dies whispering, "The horror! The horror!"
In practice
A river journey toward Kurtz.
Where people slip
The darkness is inside as well as out.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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