In Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, however, these colors and images symbolize almost the opposites of what the reader usually perceives them to signify. ... The narrator looks ahead and sees: The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky- seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness (76). ...

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