Heart of darkness is a novel by Joseph Conrad.darkness of heart is part of some ironic "unsondness". Narration of the novel is something like that, there are two narrator and an anonymous passenger on a pleasure ship, The first narrator speaks in the first-person plural, on behalf of four other passengers who listen to Marlow's tale.
Heart of Darkness has deeper meaning in symbolism, colonial literature, adventure tale, frame story romance in its insistence on heroism and the supernatural.
Both main characters have dominant power upon the novel, though Marlow slowly becomes the hero of the novel while beginning of the novel shows us that Kurtz has dominant power upon the story. Marlow is just like mouthpiece of Conrad himself. Climax of the novel is Marlow's discovery upon reaching Inner Station, that Kurtz has completely abandoned European morals and norms of behaviour.
The novel has the wonderful concept of two sentences are.....
(1)Something to say
(2)Nothing to say
Kurtz had something to say and other character Marlow has nothing to say and this nothingness of saying has concept of everything to say but can't.
The novel has deeper meaning than are found in surface level. It has also symbolic figure and illustrative of several ideas. Conrad describes the influence of Barbarism upon a civilized Man.
In "Heart of Darkness" the author, Joseph Conrad, is disdainful of colonialism and seeks to educate an immature and blinded society to the true nature and horrors of colonialism. Through Marlow's journey up the Congo and into the heart of darkness, The horrifying tools of colonialism are laid bare and the true purpose of colonialism and the European capitalist approach is exposed.
In the heart of darkness, Marlow learns firsthand the consequences, cruelty, commerce and corruption of colour consciousness in European colonialism.
As a white-man, Kurtz believes that the Natives are in need of being humanized, improved, and instructed in the European way of life. The Europeans believes that the Native are beneath them and in need of being cultured.
The novel also seems concerned with two more philosophical questions: the nature of man (humanity)
and the nature of truth itself.
Marlow and colonialism
What do the following quotes reveal about Marlow’s opinion on colonialism?
“There was a vast amount of red—good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done there .
“It was just as though I had been let into some conspiracy—I don’t know—something not quite right; and
I was glad to get out”.
“I ventured to hint that the company was run for profit”.
This final passage is the culmination of everything Conrad has been building towards in Heart of Darkness. The paralysis of the characters and the the way the scenery seems to lead into the heart of darkness shows how they have become aware of the ideologies that surround them, and it is just as shocking to them as it was to Marlow when he first made the revelation during his journey.
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