TEXT 2
1. Identify the narrator of the passage. How many narrators are there in the
novel?
There is one narrator. The 3rd person witness narrator and the 1st person
(autodiegetic narrator) which is Marlow.
2. What is the mentality of Marlow's shipmates? Find something surprising
among the features mentioned by the narrator.
They are very careless, boring, they don’t care about the other people.
They are characterized by being veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a
slightly disdainful ignorance.
3. What does Marlow's description in the second paragraph suggest about his
personality?
That he is a free spirit. It suggests that this guy is open minded who learns
things from other cultures.
4. Compare Marlow's mentality with what you know about his shipmates.
He is open minded not like the shipmates. They were tolerant to each other just
because they are from the same culture. Marlow is a guy that represents a crisis
to Victorian mentality.
5. Underline and explain the metafictional content in the last paragraph. Is
there any relation between mentality and story-telling style?
When the frame narrator deals with the yarns he is dealing with fiction. This can
be applied in a view about literature.
They are narrow-minded so the stories are narrow minded.
6. Are his shipmates the kind of audience that Marlow's story requires?
Obviously not. Because he’s going to tell the stories to people who clearly are
not going to be able to understand them.
7. Compare the frame narrator with the other seamen he has described.
He’s more willing to become a critical reader. Because the way he observes the
other and the way he understands Marlow’s superiority compared to the others.
He is able to give some value to this. He is more aware to these things than the
rest of the seamen. Maybe he’s not close to Marlow’s but yes to his complexity
and intelligence.
8. Explain the meaning and implications of Marlow's statement.
He is referring to the place where they are, London, the Thames River.
In the past they were the Africans, the primitive and other people came to
assimilate us. The Romans came to Britain and was the ones who civilize them.
We have a primitive side. Our culture has repressed that.
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