| 
Monster Essays - An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness"
An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness"
      Joseph Conrad, in his long-short story, "Heart of Darkness," tells the
tale of two mens' realization of the hidden, dark, evil side of themselves.
Marlow, the "second" narrator of the framed narrative, embarked upon a
spiritual adventure on which he witnessed firsthand the wicked potential in
everyone.  On his journey into the dark, forbidden Congo, the "heart of
darkness," so to speak, Marlow encountered Kurtz, a "remarkable man" and
"universal genius," who had made himself a god in the eyes of the natives
over whom he had an imperceptible power.  These two men were, in a sense,
images of each other: ....
  |