Wednesday, March 11, 2015
CR: The Heart of Darkness
The Heart of Darkness
Marlow made a comment about women on page 14 of The Heart of Darkness. He said "it's queer how out of touch with truth women are." I find this comment to be very disrespectful and inconsiderate. Yes, the women back then may have been out of touch with the truth but they are not to blame, men are! Men refused refused to let women in on the truth. How could Marlow be upset with how little women know compared to men when women were not given the truth?
I wonder how he would have reacted if women knew more than than they did or more than men. All men would probably be upset and outraged. They would try to put the women down because of their knowledge. Men would probably dismiss the women's knowledge and tell them that they were always wrong.
Even today it is considered "dangerous" for a women to know more than men. That is because, some men are intimidated when they come in contact with a female who is driven and intelligent. Men like to be the provider and they often need to feel needed. I think that when a man is in a relationship where he is not the sole provider, he tends to feel unneeded and that feeling produces an emotion reaction like anger.
I AM NOT PUTTING MEN DOWN! This is just how the oppression of women is shown in history.
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I totally agree with everything that you said. I also laughed at your last line in caps. It's so crazy that often times writers have to give a disclosure in order to keep there credibility or even so that people don't go crazy because they think you're saying something that your not .
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with everything that you said. I also laughed at your last line in caps. It's so crazy that often times writers have to give a disclosure in order to keep there credibility or even so that people don't go crazy because they think you're saying something that your not .
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