Feminist Approach of the Image of Women in Heart of Darkness

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languages with the Europeans, thus she could only made gestures like throwing her hands above the head. While the fiancée shows in good manners, speaking words sensitive yet thoughtful and eloquent.

Nevertheless, what they are facing are similar attitudes and judgements from male characters, who was the absolute dominant gender of that time. Both descriptions of their appearances have sexual implications. Marlow didn't hide his sexual attraction toward the mistress when he narrates her as "wild and gorgeous", "She carried her head high, her hair was done in the shape of a helmet...a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck...glittered and trembled at every step...She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent." As for the fiancée, there was also intended descriptions about human flesh, "stretching bare brown arms over the glitter of the infernal stream..." It can be inferred that Marlow developed deeper intimacy with her in ...

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