In the dying moment, the last words of the evil antagonist Kurtz, “The horror! The horror!” reveals his realization of man’s weakness in character and what disasters it can bring upon him. He ponders how the ultimate battle between ‘man and his greed’ he took on was flawed. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Heart of … Read more
The story of Heart of Darkness is essentially the story of two men – Marlow and Kurtz. Of course, it is also the story of the collision between barbarian and civilization, the story of the savages of a dark country and the invasion of that country by a white man. But Marlow and Kurtz are … Read more
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has all the trappings of the conventional adventure tale-mystery, exotic setting, and suspense. But as judged from an allegorical point of view, it is a journey within a journey into the darkness of the human heart. Marlow, Conrad’s representative in the novel, makes a double journey – one on the surface … Read more
