The Darkness of the Congo Joseph Conrad's story, Heart of Darkness is one that deals with many different aspects of nature and man himself. Conrad often associates the nature of man as an offset of Mother ... parallel to the darkness. The first clue that the journey would be horrible is how Marlow describes one of the banks. " as if Nature herself had tried to ward off intruders; in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting in mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us ... the experiences that he encounte...

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