名句分析 We live, as we dream--alone
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博主唠叨：
We live, as we
dream--alone.
无论是生存还是梦想，我们只能独自承受
当我GOOGLE我读过的这句话时, 顺便找到了Heart of Darkness
这本小说所有的名言。或者别人太忙，或者对你不屑一顾，或者没人懂你。无论是生存还是梦想，我们只能独自承受。微信上很多很多的唠叨，都顶不上这一句。
“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the
life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which
makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence.
It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”
This quote shows Joseph Conrad's belief that life is a sensation
that is impossible to share with others; that only you can know the
truth behind your existence.
_“Your strength is just an accident owed
to the weakness of others.”
Conrad is conveying his opinion of the slavery in the Congo by
saying this. The 'others' are the natives and the 'your' is
referring to the Belgians. Conrad is saying that the
Belgians are not brave or strong because they only harm those who
are 'too weak' to defend themselves.
_ “He struggled with himself, too. I saw
it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that
knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly
with itself.”
Here Marlow is commenting on Kurtz. He can see that Kurtz just
wants to run wild and continue exploring the jungle; yet his
conscience is telling him it was getting too dangerous to be around
the hostile natives and that it was time he left Africa.
_“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the
wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you,
it had gone mad.”
Another of Marlow's observations about
Kurtz. He notes that
Kurtz's time alone and among the natives has changed him, making
him more at home in the wild than in civilization.
_ “The horror! The horror!”
Kurtz's last words as he died. Marlow comments that whatever vision
Kurtz saw in those last moments, it must have terrified him.
_“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear
a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply
because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of
mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the
world - what I want to forget.”
Conrad is basically saying that lying is unwholesome, that to lie
is a morally wrong act that shows part of our 'mortality'.
_“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the
heart of darkness”
This is the first time in the book that Marlow mentions 'the heart
of darkness' which he uses to describe the Congo region in
general.
_“His very existence was improbable,
inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble
problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had
succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he
did not instantly disappear.”
Marlow's bewilderment at how Kurtz has been able to survive for so
long alone in such hostile territory.
_ “We couldn't understand because we were
too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the
night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a
sign... and no memories.”
Here Marlow is comparing the feeling of the jungle to ages when men
were still primitive, still subject to the laws of nature. This
sensation was disorienting for Marlow, so used to civilization back
in Europe.
_ “Even extreme grief may ultimately
vent
itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of
apathy”
Conrad comments that those who are grieving may sometimes try to
take revenge, but more often they become 'apathetic', uncaring for
the real world, so drowned they are in sorrow.
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