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Date Submitted: 04/30/2000 13:07:16
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 2 pages (580 words)
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, is in actuality two stories. One, is the story of Charlie Marlow's trip from Europe to the uncivilized Africa and back home to Europe again. The second is the story of a conflict between the manager of an ivory company and Kurtz, an ivory agent. These two stories make the plot and together unify the theme of the novel. The main character in this novel is Charlie Marlow, a 32…
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…every soul. Marlow on the other hand, struggles to seek the truth; he wants to hear Kurtz's voice which symbolizes his inner-truth. Marlow in the end finds his dark self in Kurtz. The black people are the truth and reality; they have the white souls, while the white people have the black souls. Every soul has a dark truth and a light truth, and a man's inhumanity to another man is that man's greatest sin.
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