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I will pay for the following essay Heart of Darkness: Narration as Storytelling. The essay is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.Download file to see

I will pay for the following essay Heart of Darkness: Narration as Storytelling. The essay is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.

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This essay discusses that it is simply difficult to believe, or for the narrator to believe, that all elements of the story are true, yet the copious detail in the story is hard to resist in that respect. Without break the action moves hurriedly from one event to the next, giving the reader the impression that Marlow is making it up as he goes along. Even when he turns over Kurtz papers to his Intended the conversation moves from one untruth to the next, as Marlow acknowledges everything she says is true pertaining to Krutz as somewhat of a Renaissance man. He does not tell her what he has discovered about him, and in the process, discovered about himself.

Mainstream society in Britain at the time viewed as positive Britain’s colonialist role and would hardly have accepted the events told in the story as true or reliable. If they did, they would certainly think the events were necessary reactions to primitive threats against legitimate authority of colonial rule. Readers can hardly believe that the narrator--true to the notion that Britain’s forays into colonialism were positive - would want to believe the story as truthful from beginning to end. For the previous reasons given Marlow might possibly have embellished the story to prove his point about the nature of man as dark and primitive despite his outward pretensions to civility. Like many a storyteller, “Marlow showing in this remark the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear...” (Conrad 51).

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