Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, tells just such a tale of two men: Kurtz, who became the devil incarnate, and Marlow, who came to discover that he had not the will for either extreme. Let us begin with Marlow, the first character in Heart of Darkness with whom we truly become acquainted. ... Seemingly a happy-go-lucky sort, he managed to retain a sort of naveté about him even with this experience, and blindly jumps at the chance to explore the Congo for a trade company, not thinking twice about the fact that a position for employment opened up to him only because a former capta...

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