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A Critical Commentary on the first 20 pages on The Heart of Darkness
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A Critical Commentary on the Heart of Darkness This commentary is based solely on the first 20 pages of the extract. The first few scenes are set on a steam boat going down along the River Thames. At first, the scene is calmly set with things such as "the sea and the sky [wielding] together without a joint". However, soon after this there is an undertone of foreboding with words such as "dark...gloom...mournful and brooding". Throughout the first few pages the weather is depicted using a transition from being calm to dark and gloomy. This could refer to London as being a dark and dangerous place. This notion is then cast aside as Marlow, the dictator starts to talk of Britain's famous naval history. He talks of the history of voyaging from London and its seagoing heritage. He says that the great explores that he is talking of are the...
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