Nicole??
Email: ENGL 490
Discussion posts
 20% of grade
Prompts: I want to talk about ___. 
 start early and be creative
Post about difference between Outposts and Narcissus
purple prose, maybe address that in posts

Nigger of Narcissus
 Is the sympathy shown to Wait selfish and egotistical?
 True solidarity comes from working together for a common purpose
  when the captain gives his orders and the crew instinctively comply
  Mythical Narcissus trapped by his reflection; i.e. his own ego
   is the ship in love with itslef; that is, the crew is only concerning itself?
 Submerging oneself into the trade.
 Ship against the crew? Breaking because of forces of nature. Seems to have a will.
  crew in position of dealing with nature and have to find a way to keep ship going until port.
 "Rebirth of crew" after the storm and reaching Cape Horn. Egotistical of crew as they forget.
 Once next port reached, a new cycle. What's the point of all of this, after all.
 With life, it just goes on. No warnings of when of learning lesssons. It justs happens.
 Commenatary on ego. Get caught with issues. Little time for contemplation.
 What is the best you can hope for in life? Maybe it is to live long enough to not bother making sense of it...
 Conrad is big on professionalism. Can find solidarity that way.
 Humor is more dry, and maybe blisty
 Purple-prose, rich

 "White self-love" according to Redman
   psychological side of Conrad
   struggling between what measure is a human and cultural background
   Was Conrad progressive for his time despite being a product of his times
   Was some of the descriptions from the personal? 
   Is duality a cultural construct? Especially in European/white cultures?
   Singleton as a white and black man? Has aspects of both. White but has tattoos reminescent of African cultures
    yet was seemingly indifferent to Wait.
  Points out perfectly things that earlier critics mentioned: racism, black/white dualities,
   likely because of bias; cannot get a neutral view on anything
   or willfully ignored these points
   speaking in binaries is unrealitistic
   don't have a "grey-area" because it wasn't created at the time.
 who is the narrator? Redman thinks it is Conrad. 
 is troubling to see the rotten parts but that isn't the whole, isn't it?*
 

Let the books speak for themselves.*
Assertion, evidence, explain why
What is with the lack of women in stories? Understandable since sailing and stuff
 Conrad's experience lies in a male-dominated world
 Took long walks at London, late at night
 homo-social aspects in his works. maybe in his personal life, too?

Common attitudes amongst critics?
 issue of point of view
 Gueraad says to see it as a sea story.

Outposts in Progress
 magazine fashion
 sentence short and visty, paragraphs are short
 not much to read
 more direct and open
 narrative Conrad is interesting
 Development of Marlow
 stylistically more readable
 morality is socially constructed and socially enforced
 without the crowd, morality falls apart and disipates. 
 The social contract is no longer in effect; breaks down
 morality is ultimatlely the pressure of crowds
Heart of Darkness
 "white man's burden" 
 Uncertainty, up and down the river. Don't know what is there
 too afraid to leave the boat, their own cosm of "order"






   