Two Black Hens in Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS
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Abstract
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKeywords: Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness hensFreslevenfatesimperialism Notes 1. An exception is Robert O. Evans, who sees them as “carefully related to the two females that surround Kurtz” (57), his black consort and his Intended, who is dressed in black. 2. The only others named in the novel, and they are hardly characters, are Van Shuyten (91), for whom the Russian disciple ostensibly works, and “Towser, Towson—some such name” (62), author of the book on seamanship given Kurtz by his Russian disciple. 3. One of the earliest to see these women as fates is Frederick Karl, who writes, “[T]hese two Parcae are feverishly knitting the fate of the Congo expedition” (Readers Guide 135). The latest to do so is Johanna Smith, who writes that by seeing them as fates Marlow “silences his own doubts” about the Company's business (187)—assuming apparently that Marlow believes the fates determine more than merely the start, duration, and end of personal life. 4. Kurtz's African consort is almost Atropos for his Russian disciple, according to whom she is concerned through synecdoche with threads in the rags he “picked up to mend” his “clothes with” (104) and who, obviously to the reader, wants him killed.
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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