The critical legacy of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness lay partly in the author’s imperialist and anti-colonialist sentiments. Despite the narrator’s interest in Kurtz, the man himself is portrayed as a deeply flawed and possibly insane. The narrator is left embittered after his encounter with Kurtz, so it is clear that...

Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' is one of the most infamous portrayals of central Africa ever written. In dramatising the narrative of its protagonists journey down the Congo river, the novella serves an allegorical function as a depiction of the potential for humanity to descend into barbarism. It does so...

Part 1 of the book, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad focusses on the hypocrisy of imperialism. Marlow believes that colonialism is hypocritical since the colonialists who claim to be civilized are the ones who have committed some of the greatest atrocities in human history. Marlow provides a perfect example...

The Heart of Darkness explains the journey of Charles Marlow from Europe after he gets captains appointment for a steamboat (Conrad 5). He learns of the cultural setting of the native community he finds in the Congo Basin, which the European community uses in the ivory trade. Marlow gets the...

This paper will address the topic of how Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness both explore the dual nature of man as possessing both the capacity for tremendous good and profound evil. This particular aspect of thematic similarity between the two wildly...