Heart of Darkness

 

 

 

 

 

Discussion questions:

  1. What does Kurtz represent?
  2. Do you find the story racist, in that it is condescending in its overall treatment of the African natives?
  3. What is the effect of the frame tale of Marlow's narration?
  4. Why does Marlow lie to Kurtz's Intended at the end?
  5. Is this a story of Kurtz's collapse or of Marlow's discovery?

Links to other Internet sources:

 

  Student Resource Page (from St. Francis) including a map of Africa

  The Joseph Conrad Foundation

 

 

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Created by Stan Galloway, Bridgewater College, 11 March 1999. Last modified 27 January 2010. Contact me at sgallowa@bridgewater.edu.