1. Setting Analysis for Heart of Darkness
... and began to murder innocent people to keep ivory coming in. All of Kurtz's downfall is due to his corruption from living with people he thought uncivilized. Throughout Heart of Darkness, Conrad shows the theme that civilized people will become savage and uncivilized if they have to live with people they consider to have those traits. One of his most significant manners of depicting this theme is through setting. Marlow's encounter ... with the starving natives is one setting that adds to the ... ...
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