They are considered traitorous creatures that are gradually becoming the symbol of darkness and beginning to betray their masters – the Europeans. ... These Congolese are devastated because they are losing their freedom to the Europeans' hands and their abilities to self-defense. ... Marlow's depictions originate from a stereotype that says all Africans are made of the same, non-descript characteristics, unlike the descriptions of Europeans who are expressed in great detail. ... Marlow assumes that the worker is the same as the other natives and that he is too crude to be truly...

• Word Count: 1173
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Visions of Light Vs Darkness When Joseph Conrad composed Heart of Darkness he created a literary masterpiece which embodied the essence of light contrasting with darkness. Throughout the novel Conrad constantly utilizes the images of light and dark and uses them to mold a vision, which the reade...

• Word Count: 4389
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

The naiveté of all Europeans can be made out in a series of examples. ... Marlow tries to make his comrades understand the basic difference between living in Europe, and being in the Congo. ... He recognizes the Europeans' tendency for self-deception and reduces this event from the Europeans' image of an intense battle to a futile firing of "tiny projectiles- into an empty forest. He so disillusioned and disappointed by his fellow Europeans that he calls their exploit a "lugubrious drollery-. In this passage we realize that Marlow is now in Africa where people aren't shie...

• Word Count: 4081
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, Heart of Darkness, the Europeans witness a life unlike any they have ever seen. ... He sees how the Natives are treated, he views the Europeans acts of futility, and this is just a glimpse of things he has to face in his future travels. ... Marlow's trip from Europe to the outer then the central station already tests his capacity to differentiate between good and evil. ... Marlow is saying this to emphasize that the Europeans are sane and look upon the Natives as savage people yet who is he to judge who is truly sane and who is not? ... The jungle entices the Europeans...

• Word Count: 2429
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Eventually he returns to Europe and goes to see Kurtz's Intended (his fiancée). ... Unlike those who truly confront or at least acknowledge Africa and the darkness within themselves, Marlow does not die, but unlike the Company men, who focus only on money and advancement, Marlow suffers horribly. ... His perverse honesty leads to his downfall, as his success threatens to expose the evil practices behind European activity in Africa. ...

• Word Count: 3088
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Along the way up the river, the structure of European civilisation is slowly dissolved as Marlow penetrates deeper towards his destination. ... It becomes apparent to Marlow that kurtz, because of being so far from civilisation for so long and being stripped of European restraints and morals, looked into his unsheathed heart, and was overcame with evil. ... He respected the natives, not finding them to be inhuman like many other Europeans in Africa at the time. ... Marlow unlike Kurtz has nothing to say as he nears death. ...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this way he came to sympathize with the Africans who suffered at the hands of European colonists. ... At the Berlin Conference in 1885, the European nations divided Africa amongst themselves. ... Conrad believed that the European intrusion would result is disaster for Africa. All through the story he shows the Europeans a little if any better than the African savages' they have come to tame. ... Already the Africans have shown themselves capable of participating in European society. ...

• Word Count: 4223
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Africa seems to hold to the reputation it is given by the mad assortment of characters that Marlow met in Europe, and all manners of nonsensical, feverish dramas play themselves out before his eyes. ... Kurtz, like Marlow, came to Africa with the ideals of an ever-reforming Europe swimming in his head, but unlike Marlow, who craved adventure, Kurtz came on a noble and righteous quest, intending to recreate each ivory station along the river to become a haven of wisdom for the natives, offering them a better way of life. ...

• Word Count: 2372
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

"Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad is a short novel published in 1899. "Apocalypse Now" is a 1979 film based on the novel Heart of Darkness by Francis Ford Coppola set during the Vietnam War. Since "Apocalypse now" is a movie that is inspired from Joseph Conrad's novel, when comparing (both proje...

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• Grade Level: High School

He believes that when Europeans colonize other countries to exploit rather than to civilize, white men commit robbery and murder on "a great scale." ... He gets a great chance, he explains, when his aunt helps him secure a position working for a European-based ivory company as a steamboat captain. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School