(a) Analyze: Find three examples of Conrad's descriptions in the story of sounds, including descriptions of silence and speech.
What do these images suggest about the act of storytelling?

Which three elements of gothic literature clearly mirror the situation of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? strange characters and settings an overall atmosphere of mystery and suspense unexplained or supernatural events characters’ inability to control their fates high emotions experienced by characters suffering from a sense of doom women threatened by powerful males