TheUnreliabilityofLanguager——CriticismonContradictoryCriticismsonSome'Blanks'inHeartofDarkness

摘要

ThereexistvariouscriticismsonConrad ' sHeartofDarknessbothhomeandabroad. Inthemoderntimes, themanyscholarstendtodevour-themodernisticcharacteristicsofthisnovella. Subsequently, thethemeoftheunreliabilityoflanguageisbrushedasideandneglected. Thispapercentersonsomecontrad-ictorycriticismsontheinterpretationsofthemany"blanks"inConrad 'sHeartofDarkness.Throughthejustificationoftheseinconsistentcriticisms,theunreliabilityoflanguage-inthisworksistobeillustrated.Andinthemainpartofthispaper,threeaspectsaretobepresented,fromwhichthelegitimacyofthesecontradictorycriticismsarejustified,thatis,the-contradictionofcriticismson"blanks"inMarlow'sCongotale,thedichotomyofcriticismson"blanks"intherelationsbetweenMarlowandConrad,andtheinconsistencyofcriti-cismson"blanks"insomemetaphoricalimages.WhatisconcludedintheendistheunreliablenatureoflanguageinHeartofDarkness.