How is the steamboat attacked?
How is the steamboat attacked? They’re shot at with arrows by natives in the woods. Who is the only person to die and how is he killed? The man steering the ship is killed by a spear thrown at him.
Who ordered the attack on the steamer?
Kurtz
How does the cannibals food affect Marlow?
Despite the fact that the cannibals cannot eat the rotting hippo meat, they do not attack and eat Marlow and the white pilgrims on the steamboat. Marlow understands how hunger can affect a person and is extremely impressed by the cannibals’ ability to refrain from eating them.
What are Kurtz’s last words?
Kurtz dies on the boat with the last words, “The horror! The horror!” Kurtz ultimately was changed by the jungle. At first he wanted to bring civilization to the natives, as his painting shows, but by the end he wants to “exterminate all the brutes!”
What does Marlow need to fix his ship?
Seeing an opportunity to use the brickmaker’s influence to his own ends, Marlow lets the man believe he really does have influence in Europe and tells him that he wants a quantity of rivets from the coast to repair his ship.
What happens in part 2 of Heart of Darkness?
After three months of work, Marlow finishes repairing the ship. He immediately sets off upriver with the General Manager, a few pilgrims, and thirty cannibals as crew. Marlow prefers the cannibals, who don’t actually eat each other and of whom he says, “They were men I could work with.”
What is the climax of Heart of Darkness?
The climax comes when Kurtz dies—leaving the mystery to what he means by “the horror, the horror.” Kurtz had “stepped over the edge” while Marlow has stepped back from the madness that consumed Kurtz.
What is the heart of darkness in the novel?
The etymological meaning of the phrase Heart of Darkness is the innermost region of the territory which is yet to be explored, where people led the nomadic and primitive way of living. The setting time of the novel Heart of Darkness dates back to those periods when the continent of Africa was not fully explored.
What is the point of Heart of Darkness?
Here, “heart of darkness” is a shorthand for European stereotypes of Africa, which Conrad’s novel did its part to reinforce. Hamid’s line plays on racist anxieties about immigration: the idea that certain places and peoples are primitive, exotic, dangerous.