Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

peerless of the unique(p) aspects of Joseph Conrads, heart and soul of Darkness, is the amount of ambiguity found within the text edition that leaves the message of many of the themes and motifs present to interpretation by the lecturer. Conrad asks eternal interrogations throughout the study, entirely not often are the answers lucky to discern simply by reading the text. Instead, one must focus not provided on the characters and their words and actions, but also the distinct vision and symbolism that Conrad employs to paint a better picture of what he is trying to tell his audience. One of the most prevalent dubiousnesss that Conrad leaves the reader to explore is the blurred terminus ad quem between what is good and what is evil, in the context of compassionate nature. What defines apiece entity? Would one exist without the other? These needions have long been a famous theme in almost all forms of literary works kn take to man. However, the answer to this ques tion has long been a debatable topic of debate. Over the job of the novel, these questions are at the nous of the readers headway as he follows the excursion of a sailor named Marlow, who has gotten a job with a trade company that operates on the congo River in Africa. As the story goes on, Marlow not only struggles with his own morality, but also begins to question the morality of those around him as he ventures deeper into the river basin. Eventually, it becomes evident to Marlow that he no longer has the excerption of good, but he instead must take away between the lesser of two evils. In the end, Marlows experiences in the heart of darkness and his quest to conquer the atrocities he experiences in the jungle serve to support a microcosm of the world today, in which life is a uninterrupted struggle to resist and overcome the inherent evil urges of human nature.\nAlthough the exact time distributor point of the story is unknown, it is known that Heart of Darkness is set during a period of wide-scale European imperialis...