Heart of Darkness | Techniques
Conrad uses a variety of techniques to advance his narrative and to imbue it with a parable like quality of universal experience extrapolated from specific incidents. The technique of narrative frame, while not original with Conrad and pervasive in medieval story-telling as in Chaucer and Boccaccio, became in his hands a newly fashioned instrument both for distancing events from the narrator and plunging the narrator into them. Conrad's narrative is often related by an anonymous narrator who identifies so strongly with Marlow that his own identity and Marlow's become interchangeable....
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