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Essay on Heart of Darkness4 | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1300 words (5.2 pages) in the essay titled Heart of Darkness4 In Heart of Darkness it is the white invaders for instance, who are, almost without exception, embodiments of blindness, selfishness, and cruelty; and even in the cognitive domain, where such positive phrases as to enlighten, for instance, are conventionally opposed to negative ones such as to be in the dark, the traditional expectations are reversed. In Kurtz s painting, as we have seen, the effect of the torch light on the face was sinister (Watt 332).Ian Watt, author of Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness, discusses about the destruction set upon the Congo by Europeans. The destruction set upon the Congo by Europeans led to the cry of Kurtz s last words, The horror! The horror! The horror in Heart of Darkness has been critiqued to represent different aspects of situations in the book. However, Kurtz s last words The horror! The horror! refer, to me, to magnify only three major aspects. The horror magnifies Kurtz not being able to restrain himself, the colonizers greed, and Europe s darkness. Kurtz comes to the Congo with noble intentions. He thought that each ivory station should stand like a beacon light, offering a better way of life to the natives. He was considered to be a universal genius : he was an orator, writer, poet, musician, artist, politician, ivory producer, and chief agent of the ivory company s Inner Station. yet, he was also a hollow man, a man without basic integrity or any sense of social responsibility. Kurtz issues t... |
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Keywords: heart of darkness, kurtz, horror, ivory, congo, impressionism, europeans, destruction, feeble cry, universal genius, cognitive domain, musician artist, torch light, traditional expectations, shady practices, noble intentions, beacon light, chief agent, man a man