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. Let us begin with Marlow, the first character in Heart of Darkness with whom we truly become acquainted. ... Conrad's narrator describes in brevity Marlow's inclination to telling stories, and that it comes as no surprise to their companions when Marlow begins to tell of his voyage to the Congo, his audience not even bothering to groan at what seems to be yet another re-telling (1369). ... It ...

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This is revealed in the novel by the aunt when she describes Marlow's journey as a "Mission"; Marlow is the main character of the novel, Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness. ... Within Heart Of Darkness the reader is offered the choice of being taken gently by the hand and lead into the Congo where they can discover for their self, the realisation of the vileness that colonialism is. ... His only way of getting his message across to the misguided invaders was to write this tale of truths. ... The novel Things Fall Apart is not a tale of passion and love for humankind as I had expect...

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This personal experience into the interior of Africa came to provide an outline for a short novella, Heart of Darkness, which he would publish in 1899. ... There are two main characters of The Heart of Darkness, Marlow and Kurtz. ... His devotion to Kurtz is unfaltering, "'I tell you,' he cried, 'this man has enlarged my mind. '- Through the continued praise we see how much of an influence Kurtz held over all types of people. ... As Lyz Baranowski said Conrad uses Marlow to "tell us what a frightening thing it is to think of what man would sink to without the accountabi...

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