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AP Literature 03.02 Practice Essay Four Mr. Moore October 19, 2022 03.02 Practice Essay Four Prompt: Carefully read the passage from the opening of a novel. Then write an essay analyzing how the author establishes the narrator’s relationship to the setting through the use of literary eleme...

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AP Literature

03.02 Practice Essay Four

Mr. Moore

October 19, 2022

03.02 Practice Essay Four

Prompt: Carefully read the passage from the opening of a novel. Then write an essay analyzing

how the author establishes the narrator’s relationship to the setting through the use of literary

elements and techniques.



Joseph Conrad’s novel titled Heart of Darkness begins on a small ship named Nellie that

is anchored in London on the Thames River. As the story begins, it is revealed that the narrative

is told using a double narrator technique, in which Marlow's account of the African Congo is

relayed second-hand through the transcription of an unnamed narrator. Conrad intentionally

establishes a mysterious narrator in order to blend Marlow's account of the horrors of

colonization with the crew's gloomy atmosphere. In the opening passage of the novel, Joseph

Conrad establishes a complex relationship between the anonymous narrator and the eerie setting

through the use of both personification and descriptive imagery.

In the opening passage, the narrator begins speaking as the crew aboard waits for the tide

to turn on the Thames River. Here, Conrad employs personification through observations of the

river to symbolize the mystery of both the setting and the unnamed narrator, as well as how their

relationship influences the values of the narrator. The narrator describes the Thames as a

“venerable stream” that serves to provide “good service done to the race that peopled its banks.”

Here, it becomes evident that in the eyes of the narrator, nature exists to benefit humanity,

particularly human exchange and commerce. Furthermore, he continues to express that the “tidal



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