Connection: Postmodern View of Memory to History

As we were discussing memory and why there is a frame narrator in The Heart of Darkness in class it dawned upon me how just like the frame narrator is making Marlow a part of memory, so to are we a part of history. Marlow needed to be a part of the memory because this memory was too important to be one person's memory alone. His story and similar stories were all experienced in the jungle he calls the heart of darkness. We, and all the people of the past are a part of the great memory referred to as history. But, all history is based upon the writings and discoveries of those that experienced it, so it is not truly postmodern memory. Where is the purely objective history? Where is a record of all the events and cultures of the past without judgments or a point of view? The answer quite simply is that it doesn't exist. History is from everyone, and although everyone is a part of history, the vast memory called history is shaped by the ones that are a part of it. It is in the gray area between the modern and postmodern views of memory. But as I reflect back on The Heart of Darkness I realize that Marlow's feelings and observations are a part of the dialogue of the frame narrator, therefore the frame narrator is not entirely postmodern because an entirely postmodern frame narrator would eliminate the feelings of the people that are a part of memory because it is not a personal memory.