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AT THE HELM OF “HEART OF DARKNESS”
Brandon Donnelly
My name is Brandon Donnelly and I am a history major from the University of Alaska: Fairbanks. Growing up, I’ve always had a deep fascination with the world and the wondrous cultures that inhabit our planet. Semester at Sea has provided a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the world and understand our own humanity. The seducing sirens call of the sea, shipboard life, and the multicultural experience made the program the only clear choice for me.
Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a centre for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing.
-Joseph Conrad.
Well over 100 years ago, Joseph Conrad immortalized these powerful words in his novella Heart of Darkness. Literature of the Sea, one of my Semester at Sea classes, helped to put these words into perspective on a recent field lab in which we discussed the novella while on a small sailboat– helping us to imagine first-hand some factors that could have contributed to Conrad’s descent into madness, as discussed in Heart of Darkness.
