Analyse the following passage from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad using three postcolonial concepts.

Analyse the following passage from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad using three postcolonial concepts.  And between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat walking on his hind legs. A few months of training had done for that really fine chap. He squinted at the steam-gauge and at the water-gauge with an evident effort of intrepidity -- and he had filed his teeth too, the poor devil, and the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping his feet on the bank, instead of which he was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge.

Question 4 of 10What is one critique of imperialism that Joseph Conrad makes in Heart of Darkness?A.Many colonists die in Africa.B.Imperialism is a burden on white society.C.The Africans do not want the colonists to be there.D.The colonists are cruel to the Africans.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish. —Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Zeugma Rhetorical Question Asyndeton Irony

Question 13 of 19Read the following passage from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness:Only here the dwellings were gone, too. Still I passed through several abandoned villages. There's something pathetically childish in the ruins of grass walls.Which words most clearly show an imperialist attitude?A.pathetically childishB.abandoned villagesC.ruins of grass wallsD.dwellings were goneSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

He was commonplace in complexion, in feature, in manners, and in voice. He was of middle size and of ordinary build. His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe…— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899).What are THREE adjectives in this passage that are used to build characterisation?