加载中…名句分析 We live, as we dream--alone
(2015-04-24 04:44:38)| 分类： 读书札记 |
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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