1.) “…I was completely unnerved by a sheer black fright… distinct shapes of danger…” (Conrad 83)
Have you ever been so scared you were paralyzed, unable to move, to think, to breathe? Sometimes people get scared to the point where they aren’t even aware that they are scared, the world just stops, your vision become skewed and you don’t know what scared you in the first place. When Marlow discovered that Kurtz had vanished he was struck with this type of fear, nothing else in the world could have scared him more because Kurtz was so essential, he didn’t believe it because he didn’t want to believe it and couldn’t feel fear because he was scared to the point where being frightened was no longer an option. Conrad is making a point to describing the type of fear Marlow is feeling, Conrad is trying to explain in such a way that each of us can relate to.
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How can you say the same thing but in more objective language? Consider each entry as an opportunity to exercise your academic register -- thus, how can you get the 2nd and 1st person out?
ReplyDeleteTake a look at that last sentence from a syntax/grammar point of view.