... in their homes. Sandra and Kerry are going to help Mrs Rutter, and in means of getting there, they go round the forest, Packer's End. Sandra is a bit afraid of the forest, partially because there could be muggers, but also because of a ghost story about a German plane that went down there during the war. Mrs Rutter is a sweet old lady, and when they arrive she offers them some ... and felt it drag at her legs and thought of swimming in warm seas (ll. 37-38)". Next to her is the wood, Packer's End, which is dark and scary and where nobody dares go by themselves, because of the "ghostlike...

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... , a great silence, an impenetrable forest." (Conrad 59) The action of travel upriver is another instance of the African environment trying to halt the progress of the whites while traveling downstream gives them a quick way out of the "darkness" and back to civilization. This alludes to Kurtz and his "choice of nightmares." "The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz ... . "One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, 'I am lying here in the d...

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... . Conrad's book is based on the presence of light and dark within everyone, and in Marlow's journey the question is often posed of which is predominant. There are times when darkness usurps the light, others when it is the opposite. However, the darkness (evil) usually tends to prevail. Conrad is implying that a sense of evil resides in the core of every human, and therefore reigns at the centre of humanity, however concealed by morals ... formed to our good intentions. However, just as trying to control the dark and primal nature within us is impossible, this is also unrealizable fantas...

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