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 wa

Conrad wrote this novel to show a man's search for self-knowledge. The book ended with a lie, which was an affirmation of the truth, so maybe Conrad's main goal is the discovery of the double aspects of truth; black truth and white truth, both present in every soul. Marlow on the other hand, struggles to seek the truth; he wants to hear Kurtz's voice which symbolizes his inner-truth. Marlow in the end finds his dark self in Kurtz. The black people are the truth and reality; they have the white souls, while the white people have the black souls. Every soul has a dark truth and a light truth, and a man's inhumanity to another man is that man's greatest sin.

The manager, based on the real person Camille Delcommune, is the villain of the plot. He is either directly or indirectly blamed for all the disorder, cruelty, and neglect that curses the stations. M

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)