/lit/ - Literature

>>10310684
and it's here to stay

>>8436495
>>8437243
Sorry for the double post, and but so, I could give you whole excerpts from the book that strongly oppose the notion that Marlow has patriarchal/top-down view of the people. It's fucking obvious that as the book progresses he develops a progressively strong empathy with his surroundings and it's people. For instance

>there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours—the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you—you so remote from the night of first ages—could comprehend. And why not?

It's more to do with a balanced concept of 'us and them' than with a 'patriarchal they-are-such-savages'

post your shit and please try to critique others