Here he witnesses his first account of the jungle. ... The more Marlow studies the Natives the greater his chances are of the jungle consuming him whole. The jungle entices the Europeans for they yearn to learn more of what they are unaware of. ... Kurtz lost his sense of self in the jungle and his views changed. ... The jungle had not changed an...

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What is the nature and scope of the modernist crises as depicted in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"? In order to answer this question, one must firstly consider the traits of modernist writing. It was an attempt to break free from the confinements of the Victorian era, and the restric...

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