Kurtz

the developments that have occurred over the course of history. Marlow, the main character and point of view of the novel, tells stories about what he experienced in the Congo, during a time that Europe was exploiting its resources and civilians. Kurtz, ivory trader and chief of the Inner Station, is a character who symbolizes the horrors that took place in the Congo. He is known to use his beautiful words, to obscure the horrifying messages about what happened between 1884-1908. This concept of

Civilization is a constraint placed upon us to be in a successful society. We often conceal our inner desires to meet expectations for us and to obey the laws to maintain order. But when the shackles are released we are free to indulge in what we want. However we associate this immorality as madness. “Heart of Darkness” a novella by Joseph Conrad shows how the uncivilized Africa transforms humans to who we are at our core. Conrad uses the structure of the novella to represent the stages of madness

In this book, readers can be immersed to see that our human nature remains quite the same as it did in early and primeval days. In "Heart of Darkness", there are discussions of primordial behaviors stemming and awakening through individuals like Kurtz who is a fictional character in the book. He is a trader of ivory in Africa and a leader and commander of a trading post, where he very much follows a string of dominating behavior through his position as a demigod among African natives. Since the

level of morality, which is absent in imperialism. In Conrad’s novel, the level of morality of Europeans and natives are shown through the reverse relationship between Europeans and natives through their amount of restraint. During the boat ride to Kurtz, Marlow notices the native’s restraint towards man’s hardest temptation, hunger. Conrad shows that although the natives have starved compared to the well-fed Europeans, the native’s morality stops them from giving into cannibalism: “Restraint… No fear

care about how the natives are being treated, but then we see him give some biscuit to a poor native which shows he cares, but at the same time, the things going on concerning the natives doesn’t really bother him. Marlow is obsessed with meeting Kurtz, who was like the main ivory operator, and who is

with the blacks, Marlow emerges as the "light" half: what Kurtz may have been if he had not had to suffer the hardship he did. Like Marlow, Kurtz began his employment with the ivory company with noble intentions: he wants to create a better way of life for the natives. However, because of extreme hardships placed upon him by the manager, Kurtz becomes the "dark" half of the soul: he symbolizes what Marlow may have become if placed in Kurtz' position. A stark reminder of what can happen if fate

notable, are light and dark, nature and Kurtz and Marlow. The repeated use of light and dark imagery represents civilization and primitiveness, and of course the eternal meaning of good and evil. However, the more in depth the reader goes the more complex it becomes. Complex also are the meanings behind the metaphors of nature included within the text. It represents a challenge for the colonists, often also signifying decay and degeneration. Finally Kurtz and Marlow represent imperialism and the

creates a frame story depicting a man named Marlow recounting his voyage up the Congo River into the heart of Africa in search of ivory and a man named Kurtz. During this time period, colonialism and imperialism are thriving, and oftentimes the slaughter and demise of humans are justified by the richness brought by the demanded goods, such as ivory. Kurtz, a former worker for the Company, a business operating in the ivory trade, represents the darkness and evil of humanity and the colonialists’ true intentions

confession of what? Perhaps it’s a confession of his own sick mind; Willard is clearly not the sanest character of the movie, although that’s not saying much, and maybe the experience with Kurtz somehow redeems him. His story is a confession because he learns to be honest with himself, as evidenced by the decision to kill Kurtz and take care of Kurtz’s

who are each clearly "flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devils of a rapacious and pitiless folly. Neither of them would be significantly related to require dissent against Kurtz; they might abundant like a less concerned manner of removing him from their worries. this is often shown by their deliberate failure to urge a doctor to Kurtz, still as their personalities usually. There is another doable regard to devils and their spiritual connotations on page fifty four, once Marlow describes the arrival