WHO
Is Kurt's "last disciple"
Who is the Russian?
What was the literal meaning of the heart of darkness?
What is the jungle/middle of the unknown African continent?
Where was the boat Marlow was supposed to captain?
What is at the bottom of the river?
Why did the doctor want to measure Marlow's head?
What is the doctor was checking to see if there were physical/psychological abnormalities in people who would go to the Congo?
"However, through this glorious affair I got my appointment..." -- Marlow explaining the circumstances that made a job opening for him with the company.
What is irony or euphemism?
Is the only person at the outer station that Marlow admires.
Who is the accountant?
What did Marlow refer to when he said at least he had his "choice of nightmares"
/What is the company vs. Kurtz's morality?
What country did the majority of the story take place in?
What is the Belgian Congo?
Why is the Russian important to the story?
What is he fills in the information about Kurtz' methods of obtaining ivory and his behavior in the jungle?
"The great man himself. He was five feet six."
What is juxtaposition?
The group of Europeans who are totally unprepared and ill-equipped to journey into the Congo?
Who are the Eldorado Expedition?
What was the last thing Marlow did for Kurtz?
What is lied to his fiance to protect Kurtz's memory and the fiance?
Where was the first place Marlow went to that belonged to "the company"?
What is the home office/probably Belgium?
Why did Marlow consider Kurtz' last cry a "moral victory"?
What is because he said Kurtz had looked at the "adventures of his soul on this earth," and had "pronounced a judgement,"?
"...the playful paw-strokes of the wilderness, the preliminary trifling before the more serious onslaught..."
What is metaphor?
Who is the manager of the Central Station?
What are two ways the story is a journey for Marlow?
What is physical, moral, psychological, etc.?
Where did Kurtz head during the night on his first night back with the Europeans?
Where is back out to the jungle to "preside" again?
Why was Kurtz so successful in getting ivory?
What is he ruthlessly threatened or killed people to get it or else got it through their worship of him as a god?
Kurtz being sent by the "International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs"
What is irony?
Who are the native Congolese workers?
What are two types of "literary conflict" evident in Heart of Darkenss?
What are man vs. man, man vs. himself, man vs. nature, man vs. society, etc.?
Where was Marlow as he related his story?
Where is on the deck of the "Nellie" on the river Thames in England?
Why do the stations/conditions deteriorate the farther in Marlow goes?
What is they are symbolic of the moral degradation, decay, when there are fewer "checks"/restraints in place on men's behavior?
"The wilderness had patted him on the head...it had caressed him...taken him...loved him...He was its spoiled and pampered favorite."
What is personification?