Essay Archive - Subject: Joseph Conrad's-Heart Of Darkness
Subject: Joseph Conrad's-Heart Of Darkness
In the novel Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad, Marlow finds
himself in a position where he is faced to accept the fact that the man he
has admired and looked up to is a madman. He realizes that Kurtz¦s methods
are not only unethical, but also inhumane. Marlow comes to realize that
Kurtz is evil, and that he himself is also evil, thus Marlow¦s disillusion
makes his identification with Kurtz horrifying.
As Marlow travels up the river, he is constantly preoccupied with Kurtz.
Marlow says _I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time...the lone white man
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