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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