Marlow symbolizes the positiveness of Imperialism but realizes the evil that the negative Imperialism has caused and decides that it's unnecessary to go through so much evilness. ... The reality of the colonialism is represented in the form of the District Manager, a real imperialist, taking advantage of his position and also the colony's position. ... His terminal illness represents the eventual death of imperialism due to the inability to adapt and respect the culture, religion and people of the country that is being invaded. This means that he symbolizes Europe towards the end of...

• Word Count: 878
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Russian describes that Kurtz opened his eyes and "enlarged his mind " which in Marlow's case, it opened his eyes to the true evil and "darkness " of humanity. ... Being a novel published in the late 19th century, Conrad has embarked and achieved an understanding of evil which is why he is capable to writing it. ... Kurtz witnessed the exploitation of Africa, the evil within the heart of humans, his own crumbling sanity and the illusion of hope and understanding. The horror can be referring to his own dark deeds which he has done while being away from society and civilisation for too l...

• Word Count: 1417
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later in Marlow's tale, silence serves to represent mystifying grandness. ... He uses silence to signify the meaningful bond between the crewmen of the Nellie, to represent the grandeur of the African wilderness, and to connote the deep-seated propensity for evil common to all men. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first recognition of this embodiment is the ways in which the Congolese are personified as "a treacherous appeal to the lurking death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart" (Conrad 33) and their faces as the face of a gloomy forest. In these descriptions, the wilderness is placed together with words such as evil and death, despair and gloom, locating it as not only the enemy, but also as a site of death for anyone who enters it. ... As these passages help illustrate, the majority of the Congolese's communication within Heart of Darkness is represented a...

• Word Count: 1173
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kurtz resembles the archetypal "evil genius": the highly gifted but ultimately degenerate individual whose fall is the stuff of legend. ... Kurtz can be criticized in the same terms that Heart of Darkness is sometimes criticized: style entirely overrules substance, providing a justification for amorality and evil. ... His perverse honesty leads to his downfall, as his success threatens to expose the evil practices behind European activity in Africa. ...

• Word Count: 3088
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Each journey up the tropical river is symbolic of a voyage of discovery into the dark heart of man, and an encounter with his capacity for evil. ... This narrowing of space symbolically represents that these men are trapped within this valley, with no chance of escaping from the many horrors they face. ...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate