Impersonation and lack of names
As reading the first part of Conrad’s
Heart of Darkness I realized that only two characters are identified with
names: Marlow and Mr. Kurtz, what Conrad achieves by only naming this two
characters is to accentuate their importance and make the reader understand
that they are relevantly important.
Through his story telling Marlow gives up his own
personality, but from every other character that pops up he only gives a random
fact that helps us identify the person almost distinguish them, but barely,
from the bunch. (The lawyer, the accountant, the director, the manager and the
man with the big moustache) This lack of names is an impediment for the writer
to connect to the character because they cannot give them a face, overall they
cant give them a personality.
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