... motif of darkness that is strong throughout the story; " absolutely everything in the book is cloaked in darkness" (Spark Notes, "Themes, Motifs and Symbols"). For this motif, darkness has different meanings for different parts of the book, and these different interpretations can be directly related to the title, thereby ... darkness" (Conrad 58). This direct reference to the title implies that the heart of the jungle is a place of darkness, a center of evil. The darkness of the Congo is revealed to be the horrors that Marlow has already witnessed and the ones that await him. Coincidenta...

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... - meaning salvation, culture, religion and commerce. He praises the colonization efforts of the British. 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. When Marlow states "I had got a heavenly ... that is being invaded. This means that he symbolizes Europe towards the end of the imperialism when they began to recognize their actions as evil, disrespectful and harmful. Throughout the reading Conrad tries to get a message out to the readers, that Imperialism is...

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