All 4 Uses of
futile
in
Heart of Darkness
- All this talk seemed to me so futile.†
Chpt 1 *
- I fretted and fumed and took to arguing with myself whether or no I would talk openly with Kurtz; but before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.†
Chpt 2
- The glamour of youth enveloped his particolored rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings.†
Chpt 3
- Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(futile) effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful