Question 4: Dehumanization of Natives by Nicole Ann Eltagonde https://padlet.com/200002106/l75p4gx1uhdu By: Victoria Replogle, Darius Osena, Nicole Eltagonde en-us 2017-04-05 20:14:02 UTC 2025-11-13 22:18:15 UTC hello@padlet.com Marlow encounters the dying natives. Shortly thereafter, he meets the Company’s chief accountant. Discuss Conrad’s use of juxtaposition. In other words, how does one image intensify the other? 200002106 https://padlet.com/200002106/l75p4gx1uhdu/wish/165000644 2017-04-05 20:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/200002106/l75p4gx1uhdu/wish/165000644 Thesis: 500002240 https://padlet.com/200002106/l75p4gx1uhdu/wish/165001112 In the "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, the disparity and dehumanization of the natives in relation to the respect of the Europeans contrasts the underlying racist view that Marlow has towards the people of the Congo. ]]> 2017-04-05 20:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/200002106/l75p4gx1uhdu/wish/165001112 Quotation: “They 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." 200002106 https://padlet.com/200002106/l75p4gx1uhdu/wish/165001402 Explanation: The way that it was prefaced makes it seem as if the natives hold no significance or importance in the world. They weren't considered to be anything more than a bundle of diseases. He seems to have no real emotion towards their status of health. If anything, he was incredibly unaffected by how they were. This just contrasts how he was incredibly interested in the accountant when he appeared, treating him more as a person than how he saw the natives. ]]> 2017-04-05 20:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/200002106/l75p4gx1uhdu/wish/165001402 Quotation: "I saw a high starched collar, white cuffs, a light alpaca jacket, snowy trousers, a clean necktie, and varnished boots. No hat. Hair parted, brushed, oiled, under a green-lined parasol held in a big white hand. He was amazing, and had a penholder behind his ear." 500002188 https://padlet.com/200002106/l75p4gx1uhdu/wish/165001692 Explanation: Here Marlow is describing the accountant. Marlow immediately uses very specific adjectives to describe his neat appearance, making the accountant seem like a man of high class. Marlow immediately takes the chance to try and be on good terms with the accountant, making pleasant conversation with him in a perhaps subconscious attempt to ignore the sickness of the dying natives that are in their proximity. ]]> 2017-04-05 20:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/200002106/l75p4gx1uhdu/wish/165001692