Marlow\'s Jungle in Heart of Darkness

In this extract from Heart of Darkness, respective(a) forms of language be use to build tension and take an apprehensive environment in which the action will occur. This is make with stylistic devices, such as contrasts, personifications and references to the real world. This pass is greatly signifi firet as it grasps all of the important historical aspects of the colonization, but set outs them in a way, which allows the reader to almost figure in the story.\nThis extract explores the wild encountered in the Congo; the river is set forth as running swimmingly and swiftly , this alliteration of the s sound makes the reader associate it with a snake, a deceiving and tricky creature that, like the river, as well as slithers through the hobo camp floor. Conrad withal uses sensory description to present the reader with a eat up understanding of that moment in time. The fact that Marlow suspected himself of creation deaf  while in the jungle shows that the jungle was by artificial means quiet and disorientating, making it extremely difficult to navigate through it without questioning your sense datums. The description of the trees whip  together evoke a sentiment of pain and entrapment, suggesting that the jungle was not something inviting, instead, it was almost as if it was warning you to stay extracurricular its walls, otherwise you will start out trapped and lost, a sense of eternal purgatory.\nConrad also recognises the plant in terms of muteness and sound, the comparison used to describe the large look for that leaped to a gun being open fire  reveals the colonizers need to make connections betwixt natural sounds, to man make ones, in order to figure comfort while change of location through the vast jungle. It usher out also be construe in the way that they are so used to the sounds of effect within the camps, that when they leave to a more remote area, they can still hear the abhorrence in the most natural of things , like a fish jumping out of the water. Thi...