WitrynaThey wandered here and there with their absurd long staves in their hands, like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence. The word `ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! Witrynaimbecile rapacity . . . like the scent from some corpse" are more than an estimate of the Company's accomplish-ments in Africa; the terms are an almost too obvious reference to the "whited sepulcher"-to the pretense and sham that fence out the "wilderness" and the opportunity that it presents for an under-standing of "evil or truth." The image
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WitrynaThe Lack of Truth. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Heart of Darkness, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Heart of Darkness plays with the genre of quest literature. In a quest, a hero passes through a series of difficult tests to find an object or person of importance, and in the process comes to a ... Witryna5 cze 2024 · It seems as if the only God they worship is wealth, and the only religion they follow is one of imbecile rapacity, for “the word ‘ivory’ rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it.” This hypocrisy enrages Kurtz: he is disgusted by the lies that surround him. When the Manager arrives to “rescue ... durga puja speech in english
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Witryna13 gru 2011 · You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I’ve never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for ... WitrynaThere is a corrupt, rotten quality to their “imbecile rapacity,” or mentally deficient greed, “like a whiff from some corpse.” In a subsequent section, he brings up disease in … WitrynaA taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove!'' But Marlow, like many others, changes as he goes deeper down the Congo River. durga puja background hd