Marlow\'s Jungle in Heart of Darkness

In this extract from Heart of Darkness, various(a) forms of language are utilise to build tension and stimulate an apprehensive environment in which the action will occur. This is do with stylistic devices, much(prenominal) as contrasts, personifications and references to the real world. This release is greatly signifi atomic number 50t as it grasps all of the important historic aspects of the colonization, but cave ins them in a way, which allows the reader to almost recruit in the story.\nThis extract explores the wilderness encountered in the Congo; the river is key as running swimmingly and swiftly , this alliteration of the s sound makes the reader touch it with a snake, a deceiving and shifty creature that, like the river, excessively slithers through the jungle floor. Conrad to a fault uses sensory description to present the reader with a arrest understanding of that moment in time. The fact that Marlow suspected himself of organism deaf  while in the jung le shows that the jungle was artificially quiet and disorientating, making it highly difficult to navigate through it without questioning your comprehends. The description of the trees drubbing  together evoke a sentiment of pain and entrapment, suggesting that the jungle was not something inviting, instead, it was almost as if it was warning you to stay remote its walls, otherwise you will bring to pass trapped and lost, a sense of eternal purgatory.\nConrad also describes the wood in terms of gloss over and sound, the comparison used to describe the large weight that leaped to a gun being pink-slipped  reveals the colonizers need to make connections amidst rude(a) sounds, to man make ones, in order to reveal comfort while traveling through the vast jungle. It nominate also be interpret in the way that they are so used to the sounds of wildness within the camps, that when they leave to a more remote area, they can still hear the evil in the most natural of thing s, like a fish jumping out of the water. Thi...