and profusely change the natives of the area. Conrad conveys the ideal that if everyone could restrain oneself, the world would be much more fluent and copious.

Marlow's restraint arises from his need to take care of the boat. The Russian's restraint ha

In the end, Kurtz realizes how his lack of restraint has cursed him. Kurtz's last words of "The horror! The horror!" displays how he felt about his life. Kurtz finally comes to realize that his life of searching and destroying the native land has had no restraint. Kurtz knows that he is the reason that all of these natives are having their troubles. He hates that his life is so unbound. He is a tyrant in that native land, and he never realizes that fact. "The horror! The horror!" the most well known quote of the book, sums up the entire plot of restraint; that quote shows the lack shown by the Europeans, dually.

Conrad's novel describes how the nineteenth century imperialist went deep into the "Heart of Darkness" in search of ivory. The white man lost all sense of control of himself. Conrad displays how the loss of restraint by the white man causes a loss of all proper judgement. This lack of restriction ended up destroying everything the natives had built. The Africans did nothing against the European society; however, they felt the wrath of the lusting of the European society.

Man is completely both animal and spirit. Man's animal self underlies one's controlling mind. Both of these, working together, are properly considered to be one's self. The use of the term "inner self" suggests that one would think that only the exposed animal self is the real self. One could only hope not.

Later in the story, the cannibals appear. The cannibals are the only people in the story, who show any restraint. The cannibals believe the white man wants to help, so they restrain themselves and respect the white man. "Fine fellows--cannibals--in their place. They were men one could work with, and I am grateful to them. Moreover, they did not eat each other before my face: they had brought along a provision of hippo-meat..." The cannibals sh

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