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Joseph Conrad / 约瑟夫·康拉德课堂思考讨论题

 

1. 

What may be the symbolic significance of the sentence "We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness" between Notes 10 and 11?

 

2. 

Why does the narrator regard "this suspicion of their (the native people) not being inhuman" as "the worst of it"?
3. 

How would you interpret the last sentence of the excerpt: "And the intimate profundity of that look he gave me when he received his hurt remains to this day in my memory -- like a claim of distant kinship affirmed in a supreme moment"?