Actually by humanity's darkness, he directly refers to the savageness (according to him) of the Africans. So through this line, he's drawing a dichotomous relationship between Europeans and Africans, portraying Europeans as the embodiment of civilisation.
@@rheagangavkar9741 - Sorry, that's crap - the novel is far more subtle than that; the natives in Kurtz's village weren't killing for the profit of Europe UNTIL Kurtz arrived, so who is responsible for their "savagery", when Kurtz is the embodiment of civilization? If Kurtz is really so civilized, what happened except that Kurtz, removed from the eyes of his peers, made himself a god and went power mad? The heart of darkness isn't found in the heart of the jungle, or the heart of the natives, but in the heart of humanity as a whole.
farhaan nishtar I did similar stuff last year, but I would recommend reading this and Brave New World. They're both really good books, and have aged better than stuff like Candide.
@@DrTranofEvil I went through the audio book of "Moby Dick" a couple months ago and I can say it's the first time I've ever been angry at an audio book before due to pace being slower than a frozen sloth on percocet. I couldn't imagine actually reading it instead.
@@wheremakeysat Did you read the book? Like honestly. Go easy on your teacher. You can read, you can write, you have Google. Honestly if you're capable of all these things why are you so hard on your teacher? I agree they should be able to explain it, but what else was going on in the class that day? Was anyone listening? Were y'all ready to learn? I wasn't there and I could be wrong but 🤷♂️.
Love this. One point. Regarding Marlowe's lie to Kurtz' fiance: In the end, I don't think he was doing her any favours. She will continue to believe that Kurtz was wonderful and that he loved her, and she will continue to idolise him when he doesn't deserve it. She may spend the rest of her life mourning her "perfect" man and measuring all other men against him. Her chances of moving on and finding happiness with someone else would have been greater if she knew what a selfish and greedy man he really was.
+theadam22 I've read it several times, also listened to it on Librivox. It is a great book. I wouldn't lie in that situation. I think the real point of the book is about the evil of colonialism and how it corrupts even the noblest of souls and purest of characters.
+Morgan Scorpion I don't think it's useful to regard Kurtz as greedy and selfish. He's lost his mind by the time Marlowe finds him. Kurtz is the preferred choice in the "choice of nightmares." The really profound thing about the book is the question we are left with: "what exactly makes Kurtz better or preferable than those other guys?" Conrad never answers that question in any direct way. That aspect of the book is what is truly haunting though.
well I had actually started thinking since there is further evidence to prove Marlow was a misogynist I considered maybe when he says it was her name instead of " the horror the horror" Marlow referred to the Intended as the horror. Afterall, his yearn to prove himself and be approved by her people, he goes out to the Congo and committed any atrocities to prove he isn't a mere pauper or a peasant (considered horrible in victorian era where social Darwinism is a popular ideology). Maybe Marlow intended(no pun intended hah) to say she pushed him to go to the Congo and she was his horror. The need to reach societies approval was too much for him . It works kind of like the Great Gatsby with Gatsby and Daisy ya feel
This is so informative! It explains things in a less complicated way than professors and teachers do. Thug Notes takes all the fancy talk and obscurity of these classic novels and explains it in terms we can understand. This is amazing, and I learn more from these videos than I do from reading the books, :)
Shermyla Parham now write your report in his language to help spread the talk talk of our day. We need to fast forward this Eurocentric writing style in merica. America, we all in the mix.
I took a college writing course at a university. The professor decided to focus the entire semester on this one book. And in all that time I didn't learn shit from him nor did I learn what the book is really about. I learn more from this four min video then I learn from that entire semester!! Thank you thug notes!!
I did an essay that analysed themes within this book and the Great Gatsby. Didn't have much difficulty understanding it at all, however, this video is fucking awesome.
Really good point, never thought about the intentions of the company before, which is easily more evil than Kurtz himself. Forgot to point out that Mr. Kurtz in the civilized world started out as a really moral and upstanding guy. Once in the wilds, away from all the luxuries, he went insane and became so savage that even the most "uncivilized" tribes were afraid of him. Apocalypse Now did really good by the source material. Sad most people think this was a book about Vietnam.
yo what's also awesome w this story is if you think about the cave in Plato's Republic. folks tied down so they only see shadows on the walls but when they see the actual light of the sun outside, they go back into the cave because the light's too damn bright. likewise Marlow sees the darkness and the light, and when he lies at the end, he's going straight back into the cave.
THIS BOOK WAS SO HARD TO READ! I was in AP English senior year of high school and we had to read it. I ended up Spark Notes-ing the whole thing because I could barely read a page and understand what was going on. It is such a hard read and I salute anyone who can read it.
Ophelia Hall Oh wow you're reading this in high school? I'm here for help in my college course. lol. Honestly, I think this novella takes to long to grab interest in my opinion, which is why I couldn't bring myself to read past part one. There's no shame in using Spark Notes! lol.
Subscribed to this channel immediately! Even though I don't agree with all the points, I FINALLY found a place on UA-cam that people are discussing high art. And the comments section is even more interesting than the video itself.
It wasn't the inspiration, it was a direct adapted screenplay of the novel. It was supposed to be even more about the novel then it was about the Vietnam War.
I've read this and I must admit - I had a hard time getting past the language barrier. To the point where I never actually realised when Kurtz first appeared. I think I'm gonna read it again with the help of the internet to try and understand what people are saying
Conrad wasn't a native English speaker. He immigrated from Poland and never really achieved native proficiency despite being considered a top English author. So yeah, it can be a tough read at times.
Matthew Harrison I don't think it's fair to say that he never reached proficiency in the language. Heart of Darkness is loaded, to say the least, and very complex--but I don't think that its difficulty stems from Conrad's lack of proficiency in the language.
rpascuttini English was actually his third language after French being his second and Polish being his first, if I'm correct. He was extremely proficient in each language he spoke and wrote in. There's no language barrier in Heart of Darkness. It's exceptionally well written and a lot of modern writers adopt some of Conrad's writing techniques from this novella alone.
I couldn't remember how many languages. As is, it's still very impressive. I remember thinking that some of what he wrote "felt" different. It wasn't wrong, I had just never seen anyone write or express word usage in that way before. I don't have a specific example though.
Honorable mentions should go to Apocalypse Now and Spec Ops: The Line, both of which used Heart of Darkness as a starting point to make media that is exemplary of their medium.
Spec Ops The Line is a videogame, and suffice to say, it also talks and criticizes current trends in videogames(depictions of the military etc. sense of heroism) It shouldn't be too expensive; it came out about 2 years ago. (PC version is £19.99)
This is so expertly edited that it knocks out secondary and post-secondary education in 5 minutes. And I don’t mean TKO. I mean KO. The narrator understands the expertise in the writing style, but, more importantly, understands it’s a novella in it’s time that asks a few very basic, critical, and universal questions on the state of being human and the consequences of lying to both self and others. Word.
Just finished watching Apocalypse Now in film class. I find the similarities and differences fascinating between this and AN. I love how even the theme can change with a different time period and setting.
I'm sitting here straight-up falling asleep while reading this book, and this video just made everything interesting! I love how the plot is summarized without revealing ALL the details. So you can still go back and read it to find all the intricacies.
Respect for this. This has enhanced my reading experience and I am probably going to read a little bit more often now that Thug Notes is in my corner to guide me through the forest. Thank you.
Salute to the ThugNotes guy for bringing a fresh delivery and energy to that topic making it more entertaining! I love Heart Of Darkness and the works that are inspired by it : Apocalypse Now and Spec Ops : The Line .
+Justin Montana It would probably be more accurate to say you got a Heart of Darkness vibe from Apocalypse now (even if you didn't know it at the time)
Hahahahaha "and then he croaked like a bitch." We just finished up our unit on this book in AP Lit; I read the fucker twice and I still didn't understand all of it. This video was honestly just so cathartic to watch after all the frustration that came after reading that book. I did enjoy the language, though. I would recommend Chinua Achebe's essay "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." It adds an oftentimes-silenced perspective to my (and many others') understanding of the novel and deconstructs the nasty perceptions of Africans exhibited in the book. Great read!
WOW. I've been trying to answer an essay question on the importance of lies in this book for over a week now, and in just four minutes and twenty seconds (LOL) this video has cleared it right up! Makin Sparknotes look like a bitch!
My problem with the story is that it's saying without laws we're nothing more than Beasts. Society itself originates laws from the people. Take a gander a societies which have developed in complete lawlessness, there's the majority of the supposed "Wild West", which was actually a safer society than modern day metropolises such as New York. Or even look at America, before 1830 there was no police force, anywhere. We're we reduced to nothing but animals because of it? No, of course not, Heart of Darkness more or less describes a central evil lurking within everyone. Although, it leaves no idea for the possibility that people can be good.
The novel never states that, it just makes the point that SOME people descend into an evil state when the eyes of civilization are off of them. Marlowe could have followed Kurtz' example and done the same thing, but he decided to leave and try to improve the situation in Europe. Kurtz has the temptation and lust for power, Marlowe doesn't, but I guess each reader takes what he chooses to from the story. I personally like this book because it doesn't shy away from the "evil" of mankind, it confronts it, and tries to bring it to light; at least that's how I took it. And I think that although the story singles out the evil among European imperialists of the day, the outlook can be applied to any empire or kingdom in history.
Just finished reading this book. Good analysis.,... Who else was disappointed when Kurtz was too close to death to drop some serious jewels about life when we finally met him in person?
***** well how much i wanted to read all the books in the world, sadly i am just a mere mortal. And this book was banned in my country. Hopefully it would available online. If google books provides it, before get banned like netflix
Yes, the movie was based on this book... Amazing how human history winded up giving Konrad an even better setting for his story of the horror within humanity...
theadam22 The horror, the horror... The fly boys go to bomb indiscriminately, women, children, men, soldiers, civilian, they kill, yet the officers are alarmed when the pilots want to write "fuck" on their war planes... If you like Konrad's Heart of Darkness then you would love Spec Ops: The Line, basically it's the video game adaptation of Konrad's iconic story in a modern setting and in a video game... Oh, yeah, and this story reminds me a lot of Dr.Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...
+randomnerd23 sorry bro but I don't care what context you put this story in; yes the original book was quite racist. But I agree w/whoever said that at the time this was written Africans were seen as a sub-human group.
oooh. I'm gonna have to disagree with that. Read fish's paper. You've just committed The Affective fallacy. You're doing an ad hominem attack. I used to think so too. Especially after I read Chinua Achebe's paper but I slowly started reading closely into it and realized that we need to realize the historical context and we also need to understand the shock value the words have. He doesn't sugar coat the way people thought of the people in the Congo. Without Conrad, there wouldn't be much exposure to what happened in the Congo.
I beg to differ, here is an excerpt from Chinua Achebe's An image of Africa: racism in conrad's heart of darkness...... Conrad was born in 1857, the very year in which the first Anglican missionaries were arriving among my own people in Nigeria. It was certainly not his fault that he lived his life at a time when the reputation of the black man was at a particularly low level. But even after due allowances have been made for all the influences of contemporary prejudice on his sensibility, there remains still in Conrad’s attitude a residue of antipathy to black people which his peculiar psychology alone can explain. 1857 was quite a contemporary time.
so africa is just a stage devoid of human elements where one european loses his petty mind. one simple can't ignore conrad's impulsive dehumanization of the african.
Dang! Now I got myself ready to watch the Apocalypse Now documentary, man I ain't even know that movie was a reinterpretation, word up! Thanks, playa! Keep it 100, peace.
"It’s the eyes of civili!zation that keeps humanity’s darkness in check" This line left me speechless, thank you!
Στέλιος/Stelios Αρβανίτης/Arvanetes Didn't work out so well for Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany tho
Actually by humanity's darkness, he directly refers to the savageness (according to him) of the Africans. So through this line, he's drawing a dichotomous relationship between Europeans and Africans, portraying Europeans as the embodiment of civilisation.
@@rheagangavkar9741 - Sorry, that's crap - the novel is far more subtle than that; the natives in Kurtz's village weren't killing for the profit of Europe UNTIL Kurtz arrived, so who is responsible for their "savagery", when Kurtz is the embodiment of civilization? If Kurtz is really so civilized, what happened except that Kurtz, removed from the eyes of his peers, made himself a god and went power mad? The heart of darkness isn't found in the heart of the jungle, or the heart of the natives, but in the heart of humanity as a whole.
@@rheagangavkar9741 You obviously didn't even read the book :D
My exam is the day after tomorrow. Am so using that line.
Teacher: Did you read the novel?
Me: yeah
farhaan nishtar Teacher:What is it about?
Damn i already forgot!
farhaan nishtar I did similar stuff last year, but I would recommend reading this and Brave New World. They're both really good books, and have aged better than stuff like Candide.
@@farhaannishtar786 Yeah, the book is so slow. There are multiple instances where a page has no paragraph break and is just a wall of text, smh...
@@pauldeloltypical of conrads writing
Nobody can craft a sentence like Joseph Conrad, but his stories move at a glacial pace.
Still better than Melville. Dude straight up makes me wanna run screaming into the night to end the pointless blathering… 😓
as someone with a degree in Literature mood big mood
@@DrTranofEvil I went through the audio book of "Moby Dick" a couple months ago and I can say it's the first time I've ever been angry at an audio book before due to pace being slower than a frozen sloth on percocet. I couldn't imagine actually reading it instead.
His stories are short and you seem to enjoy his writing, Why do you feel they move slow? Just curious.
I simultaneously want to bash my head in with how slow the pacing is and can't look away with how good the content itself is. It is peak
This man did in 4 minutes what my teacher with 5 masters couldn't do in 2 months.
Your teacher took two months to explain one novel? Perhaps their class is full of idiots...
My teacher? No. The teacher just told us to read the book and tried to explain the book's themes, but failed.
+WhereMyKeys lol
@@wheremakeysat Did you read the book? Like honestly. Go easy on your teacher. You can read, you can write, you have Google. Honestly if you're capable of all these things why are you so hard on your teacher? I agree they should be able to explain it, but what else was going on in the class that day? Was anyone listening? Were y'all ready to learn? I wasn't there and I could be wrong but 🤷♂️.
@@adamcollins8907 It really just comes down to "If you're interested or not" because if you're interested or not
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Love this.
One point. Regarding Marlowe's lie to Kurtz' fiance: In the end, I don't think he was doing her any favours. She will continue to believe that Kurtz was wonderful and that he loved her, and she will continue to idolise him when he doesn't deserve it. She may spend the rest of her life mourning her "perfect" man and measuring all other men against him. Her chances of moving on and finding happiness with someone else would have been greater if she knew what a selfish and greedy man he really was.
+theadam22 I've read it several times, also listened to it on Librivox. It is a great book. I wouldn't lie in that situation. I think the real point of the book is about the evil of colonialism and how it corrupts even the noblest of souls and purest of characters.
+Morgan Scorpion I don't think it's useful to regard Kurtz as greedy and selfish. He's lost his mind by the time Marlowe finds him. Kurtz is the preferred choice in the "choice of nightmares." The really profound thing about the book is the question we are left with: "what exactly makes Kurtz better or preferable than those other guys?" Conrad never answers that question in any direct way. That aspect of the book is what is truly haunting though.
+Morgan Scorpion That;s right, ambiguity, you feel me?
well I had actually started thinking since there is further evidence to prove Marlow was a misogynist I considered maybe when he says it was her name instead of " the horror the horror" Marlow referred to the Intended as the horror. Afterall, his yearn to prove himself and be approved by her people, he goes out to the Congo and committed any atrocities to prove he isn't a mere pauper or a peasant (considered horrible in victorian era where social Darwinism is a popular ideology). Maybe Marlow intended(no pun intended hah) to say she pushed him to go to the Congo and she was his horror. The need to reach societies approval was too much for him . It works kind of like the Great Gatsby with Gatsby and Daisy ya feel
I agree with you.
This is so informative! It explains things in a less complicated way than professors and teachers do. Thug Notes takes all the fancy talk and obscurity of these classic novels and explains it in terms we can understand. This is amazing, and I learn more from these videos than I do from reading the books, :)
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Shermyla Parham now write your report in his language to help spread the talk talk of our day. We need to fast forward this Eurocentric writing style in merica. America, we all in the mix.
The explanation is simple, clear, and incorrect.
S/o to everyone writing an essay on a book they never read.
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I took a college writing course at a university. The professor decided to focus the entire semester on this one book. And in all that time I didn't learn shit from him nor did I learn what the book is really about. I learn more from this four min video then I learn from that entire semester!! Thank you thug notes!!
I did an essay that analysed themes within this book and the Great Gatsby. Didn't have much difficulty understanding it at all, however, this video is fucking awesome.
Yes but how long do you think it took them to make this video? Just playing devil's advocate here.
this guy is getting me through life
Who else is here because they're taking AP English Lit?
+FrostForUs Yeah i have a test on monday... Even after notes and reading the book thoroughly for weeks, I still needed thug notes to explain it.
+FrostForUs HL IB ENGLISH
Reading it right now, this makes it so much easier to understand
that is the exact class I'm taking
+FrostForUs naw man I'm here because of English 2323 "Survey of British Literature: Romantic through the Present"
Really good point, never thought about the intentions of the company before, which is easily more evil than Kurtz himself. Forgot to point out that Mr. Kurtz in the civilized world started out as a really moral and upstanding guy. Once in the wilds, away from all the luxuries, he went insane and became so savage that even the most "uncivilized" tribes were afraid of him. Apocalypse Now did really good by the source material. Sad most people think this was a book about Vietnam.
yo what's also awesome w this story is if you think about the cave in Plato's Republic. folks tied down so they only see shadows on the walls but when they see the actual light of the sun outside, they go back into the cave because the light's too damn bright. likewise Marlow sees the darkness and the light, and when he lies at the end, he's going straight back into the cave.
Wait so, London is the cave and ohhh I think I get it.
Sweet connection man! That’s some deep level shit
Maybe the only meaning there is to find in this world is the one we make ourselves, with shadows on the walls.
THIS BOOK WAS SO HARD TO READ! I was in AP English senior year of high school and we had to read it. I ended up Spark Notes-ing the whole thing because I could barely read a page and understand what was going on. It is such a hard read and I salute anyone who can read it.
I salute you.
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Ophelia Hall Oh wow you're reading this in high school? I'm here for help in my college course. lol. Honestly, I think this novella takes to long to grab interest in my opinion, which is why I couldn't bring myself to read past part one. There's no shame in using Spark Notes! lol.
Ophelia Hall It really is a difficult read, but if you can dedicate some time and patience I think it's worth it.
Lol im a sophomore in high school and we have to read that book.
Jesus Christ. I've watched like more than 10 of these in a row. What is my life? This guy is amazing.
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This book was the inspiration for the movie Apocalypse Now
+hanson666999 that is indeed what was said in the video
It wasn't the inspiration, it was a direct adapted screenplay of the novel. It was supposed to be even more about the novel then it was about the Vietnam War.
I know its years ago, but Spec Ops The Line is also the inspiration of both Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
@@vincentakabane9997 You mean inspired by Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, but yeah.
I've read this and I must admit - I had a hard time getting past the language barrier. To the point where I never actually realised when Kurtz first appeared. I think I'm gonna read it again with the help of the internet to try and understand what people are saying
Conrad wasn't a native English speaker. He immigrated from Poland and never really achieved native proficiency despite being considered a top English author. So yeah, it can be a tough read at times.
Matthew Harrison I don't think it's fair to say that he never reached proficiency in the language. Heart of Darkness is loaded, to say the least, and very complex--but I don't think that its difficulty stems from Conrad's lack of proficiency in the language.
Matthew Harrison Not Native speaker is an understatement. As I recall English was his 4th language.
rpascuttini English was actually his third language after French being his second and Polish being his first, if I'm correct. He was extremely proficient in each language he spoke and wrote in. There's no language barrier in Heart of Darkness. It's exceptionally well written and a lot of modern writers adopt some of Conrad's writing techniques from this novella alone.
I couldn't remember how many languages. As is, it's still very impressive. I remember thinking that some of what he wrote "felt" different. It wasn't wrong, I had just never seen anyone write or express word usage in that way before. I don't have a specific example though.
There are not enough weeks in the year to get all the great books I'd love to see here. Thug Notes is the best channel on youtube hands down!!! :)
Honorable mentions should go to Apocalypse Now and Spec Ops: The Line, both of which used Heart of Darkness as a starting point to make media that is exemplary of their medium.
Anow for sure, I had made that connection when i first saw the movie after reading the book. I haven't seen Spec Ops yet, but am now curious.
Spec Ops The Line is a videogame, and suffice to say, it also talks and criticizes current trends in videogames(depictions of the military etc. sense of heroism)
It shouldn't be too expensive; it came out about 2 years ago. (PC version is £19.99)
cool. thank you, I'll look into it.
@@wesdesto9563 Well, it's been five years, do you feel like a hero yet?
Also, Aguirre:the wrath of god.
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it took me 2 weeks to read this book and 2 more to write a paper on it. this man just did it in 4 mins
Marlowe did not lie. Kurtz did say her name: “The Horror, the horror.”
This is so expertly edited that it knocks out secondary and post-secondary education in 5 minutes.
And I don’t mean TKO. I mean KO.
The narrator understands the expertise in the writing style, but, more importantly, understands it’s a novella in it’s time that asks a few very basic, critical, and universal questions on the state of being human and the consequences of lying to both self and others.
Word.
"And I've tasted the bitter tragedy of lives wasted. Of men who've glimpsed the darkness inside, but never faced it."
This guy makes me want to read more... lawls
Just finished watching Apocalypse Now in film class. I find the similarities and differences fascinating between this and AN. I love how even the theme can change with a different time period and setting.
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"You are a Scholar and a Thug." Love that phrase.
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I'm sitting here straight-up falling asleep while reading this book, and this video just made everything interesting! I love how the plot is summarized without revealing ALL the details. So you can still go back and read it to find all the intricacies.
I don't get if this is meant to be funny I just find it a good source of information. Keep up the good work.
Did not understand one word of the book- learnt more than i did in two weeks of uni and many attempts through reading it!
I'm pretty amazed that you didn't reference Apocalypse Now...
Respect for this. This has enhanced my reading experience and I am probably going to read a little bit more often now that Thug Notes is in my corner to guide me through the forest. Thank you.
Your reviews are reawakening my love of literature that was destroyed by doing an English degree 30 years ago
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Salute to the ThugNotes guy for bringing a fresh delivery and energy to that topic making it more entertaining! I love Heart Of Darkness and the works that are inspired by it : Apocalypse Now and Spec Ops : The Line .
Man thank you so much for making this video! It helps me to prepare for my seminar a lot!
right?
3:07 That shit hits a lot harder than it did in Sunday school.
I need more, weekly videos would be the shit.
Thank you, Sparky Sweets!
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Please do more!! The post synopsis breakdowns are fantastic.
You're the only reason I passed English class.
Thanks!
If anyone wants a good introduction to the Belgian Congo realness that informed this novel's setting, I'd recommend the book 'Vertigo Years'
Dracula, please! Thank you for these amazing videos, they always brighten my day!
Since you have a store up, ever thought about putting the thumbnails for the videos there as posters? Because they are very cool.
Outstanding. More nuanced than my take.
You were spot on. First analysis I've seen on youtube that understands what the book really is about.
You should do Battle Royal, since you did Lord of the Flies, and Hunger Games
Thanks, man. I have to teach this next week to high-school seniors and have never cracked open the book👌
I'd like to hear what you would say about Abraham Stoker's ‘Dracula'.
I thought it was Bram Stoker.
XXX80752 It is. Bram is the nick name of the names Abraham and Abram.
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I got an Apocalypse Now vibe from this
+Justin Montana It would probably be more accurate to say you got a Heart of Darkness vibe from Apocalypse now (even if you didn't know it at the time)
Wes Lydon Fair point. Is Apocalypse Now based on this then? (albeit really loosely)
+Justin Montana Inspired by, yes.
Loosely? I wouldn't say so. It follows the plot pretty directly.
I wonder why
Bang on. This is my fav book
Hahahahaha "and then he croaked like a bitch." We just finished up our unit on this book in AP Lit; I read the fucker twice and I still didn't understand all of it. This video was honestly just so cathartic to watch after all the frustration that came after reading that book. I did enjoy the language, though.
I would recommend Chinua Achebe's essay "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." It adds an oftentimes-silenced perspective to my (and many others') understanding of the novel and deconstructs the nasty perceptions of Africans exhibited in the book. Great read!
I read this book at least nine times and i didn't get that far in analysis. Bravo!!
WOW. I've been trying to answer an essay question on the importance of lies in this book for over a week now, and in just four minutes and twenty seconds (LOL) this video has cleared it right up! Makin Sparknotes look like a bitch!
best episode yet man! I love your new format!
My problem with the story is that it's saying without laws we're nothing more than Beasts. Society itself originates laws from the people. Take a gander a societies which have developed in complete lawlessness, there's the majority of the supposed "Wild West", which was actually a safer society than modern day metropolises such as New York. Or even look at America, before 1830 there was no police force, anywhere. We're we reduced to nothing but animals because of it? No, of course not, Heart of Darkness more or less describes a central evil lurking within everyone. Although, it leaves no idea for the possibility that people can be good.
The novel never states that, it just makes the point that SOME people descend into an evil state when the eyes of civilization are off of them. Marlowe could have followed Kurtz' example and done the same thing, but he decided to leave and try to improve the situation in Europe. Kurtz has the temptation and lust for power, Marlowe doesn't, but I guess each reader takes what he chooses to from the story.
I personally like this book because it doesn't shy away from the "evil" of mankind, it confronts it, and tries to bring it to light; at least that's how I took it. And I think that although the story singles out the evil among European imperialists of the day, the outlook can be applied to any empire or kingdom in history.
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I've read the book a few times, and I liked it, but the movie was so much better ;)
the movie with ertha kit?
The movie with Martin Sheen. Hence the wink.
PERFECTT. I have to read the book again starting tomorrow. This upload is perfect timing.
Can you do Machiavelli's The Prince and/or Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
Hands down the best channel on youtube!
Do Paradise Lost
Most consistently good channel on youtube.
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Just finished reading this book. Good analysis.,... Who else was disappointed when Kurtz was too close to death to drop some serious jewels about life when we finally met him in person?
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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The moral of this doesn't seem right... :\
why is this the most helpful vid on Heart of Darkness that I've seen
wow, this book suspiciously sound like the movie "apocalypse now". oh the horor....the horror....
Apocalypse Now is based on this novella
Jack Rosa really? Definitly going to read it
Lol yes. really.
Nurlinda F Sihotang smh how didn't you know that
***** well how much i wanted to read all the books in the world, sadly i am just a mere mortal. And this book was banned in my country. Hopefully it would available online. If google books provides it, before get banned like netflix
I had no clue what I'd be getting into when I clicked this, but it blew away any expectations I could might have had.
Apocalypse now .... The movie adaptation?
Exactly my thoughts.
Yes, the movie was based on this book... Amazing how human history winded up giving Konrad an even better setting for his story of the horror within humanity...
theadam22 The horror, the horror... The fly boys go to bomb indiscriminately, women, children, men, soldiers, civilian, they kill, yet the officers are alarmed when the pilots want to write "fuck" on their war planes... If you like Konrad's Heart of Darkness then you would love Spec Ops: The Line, basically it's the video game adaptation of Konrad's iconic story in a modern setting and in a video game... Oh, yeah, and this story reminds me a lot of Dr.Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...
I was so happy when I saw this pop up. We're studying Heart of Darkness this week!
You interpreted the text better than francis ford coppala did.
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this book reminds me of apocalypse now
Apocalypse Now was bases off of this book, just given a different setting.
+conanzina Yeah they didn't even change Kurtz name
I read this as ”The Art of Darkness” when I clicked on it 😂 Love the vids!
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
This is among the best things you tube has to offer .
Keeping it real - makes me wanna read more, just for myself .
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Any freshman gotta read this?
I read it two months ago
This actually sums it up so well
ironic that this book is incredibly racist
+Sebastian Khan Explain. Quite frankly I found it the opposite. If you see it as racist you sort of miss the whole point.
+randomnerd23 sorry bro but I don't care what context you put this story in; yes the original book was quite racist. But I agree w/whoever said that at the time this was written Africans were seen as a sub-human group.
oooh. I'm gonna have to disagree with that. Read fish's paper. You've just committed The Affective fallacy. You're doing an ad hominem attack. I used to think so too. Especially after I read Chinua Achebe's paper but I slowly started reading closely into it and realized that we need to realize the historical context and we also need to understand the shock value the words have. He doesn't sugar coat the way people thought of the people in the Congo. Without Conrad, there wouldn't be much exposure to what happened in the Congo.
I beg to differ, here is an excerpt from Chinua Achebe's An image of Africa: racism in conrad's heart of darkness......
Conrad was born in 1857, the
very year in which the first
Anglican missionaries were
arriving among my own people in
Nigeria. It was certainly not his
fault that he lived his life at a time
when the reputation of the black
man was at a particularly low
level. But even after due
allowances have been made for all
the influences of contemporary
prejudice on his sensibility, there
remains still in Conrad’s attitude a
residue of antipathy to black
people which his peculiar
psychology alone can explain.
1857 was quite a contemporary time.
so africa is just a stage devoid of human elements where one european loses his petty mind. one simple can't ignore conrad's impulsive dehumanization of the african.
I love the music in these videos. Keeping it classy up in here.
This is the best channel on UA-cam. :)
Legendary video
I love these!
Please do Catch-22!
This is the best summary I have ever seen
This actually...furthered my education more than any of my classes.
Dang! Now I got myself ready to watch the Apocalypse Now documentary, man I ain't even know that movie was a reinterpretation, word up! Thanks, playa! Keep it 100, peace.
Good job man, this is really original and awesome work. How many people are behind this channel? just you?
Oh my God. This channel is the only thing getting me through AP Lit.
Thug Notes is the only sub I have that I HAVE TO SEE WHEN IT COMES OUT!