- “The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud … I felt how big, how confoundedly big, was that thing that couldn’t talk, and perhaps was deaf as well. What was in there?” (p. 64)
Conrad uses vivid imagery in this passage, and establishes a clear connection to human life as Marlow is beginning to consider the silence of nature a little unnatural to tolerate. Under the circumstances, he is uncomfortable with the calm and quiet atmosphere and questions whether the stillness of nature is normal. Marlow also compares the silence to being mute and deaf, much like a human being who possesses that handicap, whose world is completely silent and tranquil.
(Photo Credit)
Beautiful and Tranquil Lake Alpsee. Photograph.
Pbase.com. Web. 13 Sept. 2009. http://k43.pbase.com/u32/seanathan/large/33133072.MUNCHEN002.jpg.
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