ENG120 HEART OF
DARKNESS NOTES
Taneil Thompson
[COMPANY NAME] [Company address]
, Setting
Characters
Director of Companies
- Captain and host (pg. 3)
- Resembled a pilot (he looked the part of a sailor) (pg. 3)
The Lawyer
- Best of the old fellows (pg. 3)
- Many years and many virtues (pg. 3)
The Accountant
- Brought of the box of dominoes (pg. 3/4)
Charlie (pg. 9) Marlow
- He realizes that taking the land from the natives is wrong
- Sat cross-legged, straight back, ascetic aspect, arms dropped and palms
outwards, resembling an idol (buddha) (pg. 4)
- sunken cheeks, yellow complexion (pg. 4)
- only one who still followed the sea (pg. 5)
- didn’t represent his class (pg. 5)
- seaman but a wanderer too (pg. 5)
- not typical (pg. 6)
- did once turn fresh-water sailor (river) (pg. 8)
- had a passion for maps and dreamed of becoming an explorer (pg. 8)
- became captain for the Company (pg. 10)
- Englishman (pg. 13)
- Dear Charles (pg. 15)
- Not particularly tender (pg. 19)
- Lean face, worn, hollow, downward folds, dropped eyelids, aspect of
concentrated attention (pg. 58)
Fresleven
- the predecessor of Captain Charlie Marlow (pg. 10)
- a Dane (person of Danish descent) (pg. 10)
- gentlest, quietest creature before leaving for Africa (pg. 10)
- he died after a quarrel broke out between himself and the chief of a
village in the Congo over hens. The son of the chief stabbed him with a
spear. (pg. 10)
DARKNESS NOTES
Taneil Thompson
[COMPANY NAME] [Company address]
, Setting
Characters
Director of Companies
- Captain and host (pg. 3)
- Resembled a pilot (he looked the part of a sailor) (pg. 3)
The Lawyer
- Best of the old fellows (pg. 3)
- Many years and many virtues (pg. 3)
The Accountant
- Brought of the box of dominoes (pg. 3/4)
Charlie (pg. 9) Marlow
- He realizes that taking the land from the natives is wrong
- Sat cross-legged, straight back, ascetic aspect, arms dropped and palms
outwards, resembling an idol (buddha) (pg. 4)
- sunken cheeks, yellow complexion (pg. 4)
- only one who still followed the sea (pg. 5)
- didn’t represent his class (pg. 5)
- seaman but a wanderer too (pg. 5)
- not typical (pg. 6)
- did once turn fresh-water sailor (river) (pg. 8)
- had a passion for maps and dreamed of becoming an explorer (pg. 8)
- became captain for the Company (pg. 10)
- Englishman (pg. 13)
- Dear Charles (pg. 15)
- Not particularly tender (pg. 19)
- Lean face, worn, hollow, downward folds, dropped eyelids, aspect of
concentrated attention (pg. 58)
Fresleven
- the predecessor of Captain Charlie Marlow (pg. 10)
- a Dane (person of Danish descent) (pg. 10)
- gentlest, quietest creature before leaving for Africa (pg. 10)
- he died after a quarrel broke out between himself and the chief of a
village in the Congo over hens. The son of the chief stabbed him with a
spear. (pg. 10)
