Heart of Darkness

Adelita Lopez <Tab/> <Tab/>Joseph Conrad's, Heart of Darkness is a literature piece which expresses and reveals the true face of "civilization". Throughout this novel Joseph Conrad expresses his thoughts, I believe, through Marlow. Marlow is Joseph Conrad himself, but in the novel. Kurtz represents Imperialism and greediness without limits. The relationship that the author and Marlow share is one that is bound together throughout the whole …

…it isn't until Kurtz' death that he recognizes what it is he has done. There were probably flashbacks of the "civilized" colony which he tried to form. He was probably seeing the heads of dead people on the poles he owned. These last words spoken by Kurtz tie up and end the story altogether. Because throughout this whole novel there is nothing but darkness in the forest, in the rivers, the secrets and people's hearts.