IB HL Lit

Heart of Darkness (perspective)

1st person, limited

1984 (perspective)

3rd person, limited

Heart of Darkness (narrator)

unknown, but the story is mostly told through Marlow’s perspective

1984 (narrator)

unknown, but the story is mostly told through Winston’s perspective

Heart of Darkness (genre)

historical fiction

1984 (genre)

dystopian

Heart of Darkness (themes)

autonomy

exploitation

disconnection

sexuality

human nature/desire

false truth

cyclical nature of the system

confrontation

1984 (themes)

autonomy

exploitation

disconnection

sexuality

human nature/desire

false truth

cyclical nature of the system

confrontation

Heart of Darkness (symbolism of ivory)

Heart of Darkness (symbolism of darkness)

Heart of Darkness (symbolism of mistress)

Heart of Darkness (symbolism of brick maker and manager)

1984 (symbolism of the paper weight coral)

1984 (symbolism of darkness)

1984 (symbolism of Julia)

1984 (symbolism of Parsons)

1984 and Heart of Darkness (similarities)

appendix and footnotes, language

1984 and Heart of Darkness (differences)

Heart of Darkness quote on narrator commenting on the scenery in London

“The dreams of men, the seed of common wealths, the germs of empires” (pg 5).

Heart of Darkness quote from the narrator with intertextuality

“My purpose was to stroll into the shade for a moment, but no sooner within than it seemed to me I had stepped into the gloomy circle of some Inferno” (pg 17).

Heart of Darkness quote on foreshadowing from Marlow

“There is a taint of death, a flavour of morality in lies—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—what I want to forget” (pg 27).

Heart of Darkness quote metaphor on what has become of Captain Kurtz

“He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land—I mean literally” (pg 49).

Heart of Darkness quote imagery of the outpost where Kurtz is

“They would have been even more impressive, those heads on stakes, if there faces had not been turned to the house” (pg 57).

Heart of Darkness quote imagery of the light that is on Kurtz’s betrothed's face as she first enters the room

“The room seemed to have grown darker, as if all the sad light of the cloudy evening had taken refuge on her forehead” (pg 73).

1984 quote on human nature

“You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself” (pg 292).

Heart of Darkness on arts

Kurtz’s poetry and paintings, interesting because art is not an accurate portrayal of history, in that things can purposefully ommitted

Heart of Darkness on science

Heart of Darkness on history

he who controls history, controls the future

1984 on arts

singing, notebook, coral

1984 on science

tech of survelliance, taking a government organized field too far

1984 on history

not knowing what truth, fact, or fiction is, having little understanding of the past and if it even exists