On "heart Of Darkness," The Art Features

As a modernism masterpiece, Heart of Darknessis one of Conrad's most influential work, and is known throughout the world by unfailing artistic charm. Its multiple reference and uncertainty about the theme lead to a general discussion in the critic .Many critics went into depth on the causes of it from the standpoint of Historical Background where the story happened and the backgrond where the author in and so on, but few people do research on this project from the standpoint of the artistic styles in the novel. The writer thinks that the artistic styles in the novel is a important cause of its multiple reference about the theme ,and try to do deep research on it.In the first place, the novel uses a structure of a tale within a tale. As a outline narrator I am listening Marlow who is the interior narrator telling a former story about himself, and Kurtz is the whole show in his story. The reletaive dynamic true story unfolds in the reletaive static framework. It seems that The two narrators in the true story and the framework are entirely different , but in fact ,they exchange narrative perspective in secret from time to time and hold up the narrative structure together .In the next place, The novel also uses Symbolism in wide rang , which adds to a symbolic layer and deepen the theme of Human Nature , searching for moral and seeking, finally completes the trial to the "civilized person" , consequently enriches the subject matter.Furthermore, The use of Defamiliarization disintegrates the generic reaction of the readers on adventure story. and creates a sublimated consciousness, finally designs a new reality instead of our successive and habitual reality. At the same time, the multilayer obstacle setting by the narrative methods prolongs the feeling process of the readers , and also increase the difficulty of comprehension. Thus delays the theme to appear .Conversely, the Richness and fuzzyness of the theme is counted as one of the characteristic artistic charms, and makes the contents combine with the forms perfectly.