In Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, there are many eccentrics that make shortened appearances, or never even utter a sentence. The character that I believe has the most influence compared with their actual metre in the novel is the gorgeous apparition of a cleaning woman that appears for only a brief moment, but represents many of the stories fundamental ideas (136). From Kurtzs corruption to the conflict between society and cutthroatry, she is able to represent many ideas without doing anything more than walking.
This woman sets her self apart from the other natives at first by stepping from the mass of dark tender shapes at the gloomy border of the forest (136). The woman represents a combination of savagery and civilization. Her role as a savage is indicated by a flash of barbarous ornaments while these akin ornaments point her out as at least semi-civilized (136). The bronzy ornaments and ornate cloths could have only been obtained through Kurtz so it points to him as a civilizing influence on her. This is important because if he has an feeling on her, she probably has one on him also. While the lector can only speculate as to why Kurtz obeys the desires of the woman, we recognize that Kurtz does ignore her whims occasionally (137).
Through the entire encounter she maintains an air of exultant superiority except for the brief pause in her heedful steps when the sorrowful land.....seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and lusty soul (137). She only appears very briefly, and we are never prone a definite reason for her pride. The reader must set whether she is prideful because of the items she has that are from a civilized society, or if she is...
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