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This is the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
What is imperialism?
Still in mourning, given little to say or do. This is probably due to their race and gender.
Who is the intended?
Marlow has positive feelings towards them (x2) because they are good workers and not completely primitive.
Who are the fireman and the helmsman?
The company's main resource.
What is ivory?
This country produces the most coffee in the world.
What is Brazil?
This term describes a work of literature that contains a story within a story.
What is a frame story?
Dresses in patchwork
Who is the Russian?
He is impaled on a spear thrown from the riverbank. This symbolises the pointlessness of greed and technological invention.
What is "exterminate all the brutes"
The main ingredient in hummus.
What are chickpeas?
This term refers to the imposed alienation of another group of people with the implication that they are different and backwards
What is othering?
A papier-mache Mephistopholes
Who is the brickmaker?
He sees the dying and diseased "savages" and knows that they are neither "enemies" nor "criminals". This changes his understanding about it.
What are Marlow's feelings about the Company's presence in the Congo?
It implies death, hollowness and confinement. Europe is the origin of colonial enterprises that seem beautiful but bring death to white men and their colonial subjects.
What is the "whited sepulchre"
Canis lupus is the scientific name.
What is a wolf?
The recurring themes of light and dark are examples of this in Heart of Darkness.
What are motifs?
All of his attention is devoted to his appearance.
Who is the manager?
The setting in which the novel begins - indicating that Europe may not be as civilised as it seems.
It obscures and distorts. It prevents Marlow from ever truly understanding Africa.
What is fog?
The world's longest river.
What is the nile?
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
What is juxtaposition?
He thinks he is a God who can lead the "primitive" people to proverbial light... or "exterminate" them!
Who is Kurtz?
The Outer Station
Where is the "grove of death"?
Marlow's doting relative who gets him a job in the Company and thinks colonisation is "glorious".
Who is the aunt?
Aubrey "Drake" Graham, Nina Dobrev and Billy Ray Cyrus all starred in this iconic show.
What is Degrassi?