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Heart of Darkness Man and the Natural World Quotes Page 9
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #25 "The woods were unmoved, like a mask – heavy, like the closed door of a prison - they looked with their air of hidden knowledge, of patient expectation, of unapproachable silence." (3.4) |
The wilderness is compared to a prison, trapping the men inside. It is enclosed, silent, and menacing.
| Quote #26 "But the wilderness had found him [Kurtz] out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating." (3.5) |
The wilderness is described as a live, evil thing which is able to sound out men’s faults and use them against their owners to drive them mad.
| Quote #27 "I noticed that the crowd of savages was vanishing without any perceptible movement of retreat, as if the forest that had ejected these beings so suddenly had drawn them in again as the breath is drawn in a long aspiration." (3.9) |
The native Africans are described as merely an extension of the wilderness – a living, breathing wilderness that is drawing its minions back in as it inhales.
