Friday, January 25, 2013

The end of HOD

I finished the book in class. So good! I didn't get all of the intricacies and stuff the first time I read it (well, heard it). The end was awesome! I think that every other word was an adjective or adverb. I liked that he lieder a pure, moral woman who has had all of the light sapped out of her soul at the end of his story... It really fits the story (for obvious reasons). The poetic end of the novel closes the depressing book with a beautiful paragraph and makes the points of the novel more accessible. In the end. The people who have just heard Marlow's story are enlightened and so are we. We see the problems with men and society, we see what Conrad was saying about unrestrained men, and we see all of the intertwining messages converge in one beautiful line "The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky – seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness." This book leaves the reader with a lot to digest (mentally), so that's what I'm going to do.

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