https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr Alexa Tremblay en-us 2021-11-22 00:29:25 UTC 2021-11-22 01:59:56 UTC hello@padlet.com 9960159 https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1904930658 2021-11-22 00:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1904930658 9960159 https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1904943791 Throughout this novella, Marlow has a hard time understanding how others may be different from him. He does not understand the ways of life that other people may have that he doesn't experience. He has trouble finding a different perspective than his own. This is an issue in the world still today because there is still discrimination upon many who may not be the same as their neighbor. There are people in this world who believe that difference means weakness, when that is not always the case
Examples in the text:
"While I stood horror-struck, one of these creatures rose to his hands and knees, and went off on all-fours towards the river to drink. He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone" (Conrad 1.14).
"They [the slaves] were dying slowly—it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom" (Conrad 1.13).]]> 2021-11-22 00:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1904943791 9960159 https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1904949068 In this novella, there are multiple occasions where Marlow questions how the people surrounding him think. He believes as though the only virtues and morals of life should be his own, and does not always see eye to eye with people that may believe something different. This is an issue seen among many even today, because respect of others and their opinions is not always considered. 
Examples:
-While Marlow is listening to the manager and his nephew speak about Kurtz, he does not believe that they should have an opinion opposing his own and speaks in his mind about how stupid they sound. 
"Yet somehow it didn't bring any image with it - no more than if I had been told an angel or a fiend was in there. I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars" (Conrad 1.22). 
He does not believe that someone else could have a differing opinion, so he uses the analogy about life on mars.  ]]> 2021-11-22 00:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1904949068 9960159 https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1904999580 Everyone believes that they are the best at what they do and deserve more power. In this novella, Marlow is seen yearning to climb the food chain at the company. He constantly believes that he deserves more power, making him see others as weaker than him. He yearns for a high position and expresses that he will do anything that stands in his way to get to it. 
Example:
"I know the wife of a very high personage in the Administration, and also a man who has lots of influence with,' etc. She was determined to make no end of fuss to get me appointed skipper of a river steamboat, if such was my fancy" (Conrad 1.6)
He believes that in knowing someone who may have more power than him, he will gain an advantage with the people on his level, giving him hope that he will move up. He further expresses in this novella, how determined he is for everything to go his way. 
"'Kurtz got the tribe to follow him, did he?' I suggested. He fidgeted a little. 'They adored him,' he said" (Conrad 3. 4) 
Marlow constantly wants to inquire more information on the power that Kurtz held. He admires Kurtz greatly for this skill that he had. ]]> 2021-11-22 01:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1904999580 9960159 https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1905029959 You and the person you sit next to in a math class are given a problem to solve. There is no exact formula though. The way you think about problem solving this issue, will be very different than the person next to you. No one thinks exactly the same way, which makes everyone unique. This problem with this in the world, is not everyone can accept that the people surrounding them may think differently. In this novella, Marlow does not accept individuality when it comes to others, connecting to the other global issues. He has trouble believing that others may be correct. 
Examples: 
-When the Harlequin is speaking with Marlow and some of the men on his boat, he criticizes him in his mind about how different he may view Kurtz. The Harlequin gives a "warning-call" for the men waiting to meet him explaining that Kurtz may not be what they all are expecting. Marlow does not understand that someone brain could even think this way about someone so successful. His brain will not understand the information that he could be wrong about his own opinions.
-Marlow's idea of women can be seen as something that constitutes as a global issue with creativity at this time. He believes that woman have such "unique" minds and does not credit them for any substantial ideas. He sees them as merely trophies for the men and gives almost no thought towards how their ideas may be acceptable. Marlow's mind will again, not understand how women may have some ideas for problem-solving and may contribute to his work. ]]> 2021-11-22 01:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1905029959 9960159 https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1905051903 Constantly, Marlow addresses his surrounding negatively. He believes that the places he is trying to colonize are filled with disgusting mystery and does not accept the Congo and Africa as ideal. This is a concept that is not foreign to many people even today. The United States sees themselves as a better country as the rest. Stereotypes about other countries about their environment are created, putting the United States ahead. 
Examples:
"Here and there a military camp lost in a wilderness, like a needle in a bundle of hay—cold, fog, tempests, disease, exile, and death - death skulking in the air, in the water, in the bush. They must have been dying like flies here" (Conrad 1.3). 
The words chosen such as death and exile express how dark this environment is. He is not worshiping the land the way the natives do. 
"However, I wasn't going into any of these. I was going into the yellow. Dead in the centre. And the river was there—fascinating—deadly—like a snake" (Conrad 1.7).
Comparing this place that he was exploring to a snake, shows how deadly he believes this colonization to be. ]]> 2021-11-22 01:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/9960159/5pc3rl8fgf282upr/wish/1905051903