Underneath the literal journey encountered in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness lies a tale saturated with subtle, yet, significant imagery that brings forth the true meaning of the novella. ... (Conrad 18) Furthermore, Conrad's frequent symbolic combination of life and death is a parallel to light and dark, echoing the fact that the two must exist simultaneously - there cannot be without the other. ... (Conrad 22) The life and times of Kurtz serve as a valuable lead into the evil that is man. ... Not to forget that Conrad closes the book with classic symbolism of Marlow in the l...

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Joseph Conrad's experiences with the dark side of human nature also heavily influence his work. Conrad was born in a region of the Ukraine, then under Russian rule ("Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)-, http://www.kirjaso.sci.fi/jConrad.htm). ... ("Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)-). ... The story itself is a parody of the classic British children's story Coral Island by R. ... Conrad witnessed this expansion when he himself traveled into the Congo in 1890 (Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)). ...

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Underneath the literal journey encountered in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness lies a tale saturated with subtle, yet, significant imagery that brings forth the true meaning of the novella. ... (Conrad 18) Furthermore, Conrad's frequent symbolic combination of life and death is a parallel to light and dark, echoing the fact that the two must exist simultaneously - there cannot be without the other. ... (Conrad 22) The life and times of Kurtz serve as a valuable lead into the evil that is man. ... Not to forget that Conrad closes the book with classic symbolism of Marlow in the l...

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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. ... Quite the contrary, this made Marlow all the more excited (Conrad 1371). ... By accounts, Kurtz is "a prodigy[. . .]an emissary of pity, and science, and progress" (Conrad 1383). In time, Marlow becomes absolutely entranced with finding Kurtz, a man with whom he comes to believe he could identify, though he himself would deny it (Conrad 1387). ... Cox put it, "Marlow's journey down the Congo p...

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