Demonstrate an Understanding that the Irrationality of Savagery is the Central Theme in of Joseph Conrad's Novella "Heart of Darkness- In Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness- the reader is presented with the character of Marlow the protagonist, who begins by telling the passengers onboard a ship about his experiences in the Belgian Congo. The novella gradually becomes increasingly sinister as Marlow progresses ever closer to the centre of the jungle following a river "a snake- that had "charmed- him into going to the Congo Moreover, at the centre of this river lies the "hea...

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In, "Heart of Darkness," Joseph Conrad uses the nature of the Congo river as a symbol to express the chaos and condition in the heart of both the conquerors and the conquered. ... Conrad writes about how the river came to have a, "profound darkness," within its heart, implying that all the hatred, disgust, vanity, and poisonous feelings in the heart of the Europeans and the Africans figuratively accumulated in the river. In effect, the author uses personification when Marlow realizes that the river not only appeared, "dark," but also, "hopeless," confronting the f...

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• Grade Level: Graduate