Modernist Style in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness :: Heart Darkness essays

Modernists Experiments in Heart of Darkness   In Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, a chaotic form of writing takes place which is characteristic of the Modernists experiments in their movement of literature of stream-of-consciousness.  Written before WWI took place, he spoke of a contrary type of chaos and uncertainty present in the world at this time the issue of slavery.       Heart of Darkness describes a voyage to Africa, putting surface for the British still, despite the horrific treatment which was apparent of colonization.  The chaotic, stream-of-consciousness style Conrad took on helped to display the confusion, and made the lector have to interpret for themselves what they thought the author meant.  Conrad experiments with this style, leaving some sentences without ending not a sentimental largeness but an ideasomething you can set upand offer a sacrifice to. (Conrad, Longman p. 2195), a very choppy form of literature and causes the re ader to fill in the holes and interpret themselves, alone.  Conrad skips almost from talking of the two women create from raw material black wool feverishly at the gate of the city (of hell), to his aunty which he feels women are out of touch with truth, to how the British are as weak-eyed devil(s) of a rapacious and pitiless folly (Conrad, Longman pp. 2198, 2199, & 2202).  Conrads mind moves about as ours do along a large duration of literary monologue to convey to the reader the authors ideas, as interpreted by the reader.       Conrads autobiography frame also continues his experimentation with literary form in Modernist style.  twain separate monologues are present throughout Heart of Darkness.  The first discussion section starts out with an unnamed narrator aboard the ship Nelly, describing to himself, as advantageously as to the reader, those aboard the ship, particularly Marlow.  At first, the narrator is not know for sure to be a character aboard the ship until a few paragraphs later identify him as a person discover the others-Between us there was, as I have already said, (Conrad, Longman p.