Significance of the Last Words of Kurtz “The horror! The horror!” in The Heart of Darkness

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