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This is the first 1,000 characters of 586 words (2.34 pages) in the essay titled heart Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, is in actuality two stories. One, is the story of Charlie Marlow s trip from Europe to the uncivilized Africa and back home to Europe again. The second is the story of a conflict between the manager of an ivory company and Kurtz, an ivory agent. These two stories make the plot and together unify the theme of the novel.The main character in this novel is Charlie Marlow, a 32-year-old seaman, on his first freshwater voyage up the Congo River. Conrad uses Marlow as a narrator so that he can enter the story in able to tell it from his own point of view. Marlow is disgusted by the manager s senseless cruelty toward the blacks. Throughout the book he longs to meet Kurtz, the ivory agent. In the course of the journey he turns away from the white people, because of their brutality, and turns toward the jungle which was dark and symbolized truth, he finally welcomes and appreciates the black people. He begins to connect with Kurtz long before they meet till they form a symbolic unity. Marlow and Kurtz are the light and dark souls of one person. Kurtz also came to the Congo for good deeds. He wanted to turn ivory station into beacon lights to offer a better way of life to the natives. Kurtz was a poet, writer, artist, musician, politician, ivory procurer, and chief agent of the ivory company s Inner Station at Stanley Falls. Kurtz is also a thief, murderer, raider, and even allows himself to be worshiped as a god. Marlow does not see Kurtz till h... |
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Keywords: heart of darkness by joseph conrad, marlow, kurtz, ivory, heart heart, congo river, heart of darkness, novel, europe, chief agent, physically ill, stanley falls, image of death, animated image, beacon lights, dark souls