heart of darkness 2

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In the novel Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad, Marlow finds himself in a position

where he is faced to make a moral 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 turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on

thoughts of home...towards his empty and desolate station_(32). From the beginning of his trip, he is

compared to Kurtz by all of the people that he comes into contact with, and a great deal of his tho

death easily and remains loyal to his dying requests. It troubles Marlow a great deal that there is so much of

the identification that comes along with this acceptance. It is only then when Marlow realizes the true

what bothered Marlow. Hearing of and seeing the acts committed by Kurtz made Marlow uneasy, and even

himself he sees what he could easily become, and he desperately wants to suppress it. Once Kurtz is on the

of problems that Marlow faces and he maintains his composure. It Kurtz¦s lack of composure that Marlow

Marlow finds out that there is a savage beast in himself, and in all men in his mind. There are a lot

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Category: English

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