Essay ideas

After reading over Karl's literary critique of The Heart of Darkness, I found his connection his Conrad and Freud to be very interesting. The point brought up by Karl that sticks with me the most, and that I want to focus my essay on, is the fact that both Freud and Conrad set up dream light, nightmarish worlds that is almost too radical and unrealistic because of their odd nature. He describes the environment in The Heart of Darkness as being absent of rules and limitations that might halt the average individual from pursuing his deepest, darkest desires. I would like to focus my essay on Marlow's journey through the Congo and how what he sees affects him emotionally and how what he does see triggers his interest in the lives of the natives and the managers. I would like to ficus on the shade and how it takes on unexpected symbolism. Further, it seems to me that everything in the Congo is represented in a way that one wouldn't expect: such as the cannibals and their restraint against eating Marlow and the other managers on the boat. Maybe it comes down to, what Jeff and I were speculating about yesterday, that maybe the images and events brought up throughout the course of the story are unthinkable and somewhat odd, because it there is no rules and no restraints, instead the human id is allowed to break through. Therefore, all of the desires that are usually pushed down by police and laws, are able to manifest.