Posted by Christina on February 02, 1998 at 23:38:19:
Hi!! If you can answer any of these questions please give me an email! I am so LOST in this novella!!!
1. In Conrad's HOD, Marlow's journey occurs on three levels: the spatial, the temporal and the psychological. Discuss the layering of the novella with reference to specific pages from the text.
2. In his discussion about mythology, Joseph Campbell writes the following paradoxical statement: "One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light" (THe Power of Myth 37). Discuss the significance of the above quotation to Conrad's HOD.
3. Discuss the mythic patterning of Conrad's HOD.
4. Discuss Conrad's HOD as a psychological novella in which Marlow "descends" toward a fuller vision and gains a new complex awareness.
5. Does Conrad's HOD express colonialist or anti-colonialist views or both? Can we read the work as a form a literary resistance --as counter discursice--or does the text comply with the dominant, imperialist ideology which sentences the aboriginal other to the sign of the primitive?
I'm seriously looking for some help about this book because I'm totally lost! If you could help me with any of these questions I'd be very very greatful!!!!!
Thanks!!
---Christina
email: ckyu@connect.ab.ca
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