"Men! The only animal in the world to fear" (Lawrence). D.H Lawrence displays that men are the only animals people need to fear. In the novel, Conrad emphasizes a crucial point of man being easily transformed from civilized to animalistic quickly. The animal-like characteristics make man feared because the lack of a soul. Throughout Heart of Darkness, it can be observed that when man is encompassed by darkness, they can become accustomed and so enthralled with the way they are living that they themselves can become like the people with which they surround themselves with. This is clearly observed in the novel when he writes about Marlow and Kurtz's morals, humanity, and lifestyles. In Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, he uses the literary
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It is significant that Conrad includes Biblical allusion because it makes the novel more enriching. The white washed tombs are one of the Biblical allusions in Heart of Darkness. " In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulcher" (Conrad 7). This quote is meaningful because Marlow is implying that the company's desire to become wealthy has blinded them from the truth of what they are doing to innocent Africans. They were being hypocrites; they were acting like innocent people, but on the inside they were corrupt and greedy. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like white washed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean" (Matthew 23:27). This verse aligns with the novel because the same thing is happening in the Bible. The Pharisees were claiming to be doing something right, but they were corrupted hypocrites, blind to the truth of what was right. This all relates directly to the novel. The company had been portrayed as heroes going to bring the savages, who were blind to the aspect of civilization, back into the light by civilizing them. Everything the Europeans saw on the outside was false, on the inside, the company was not at all heroic; it was full of corruption and
It is significant that Conrad includes Biblical allusion because it makes the novel more enriching. The white washed tombs are one of the Biblical allusions in Heart of Darkness. " In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulcher" (Conrad 7). This quote is meaningful because Marlow is implying that the company's desire to become wealthy has blinded them from the truth of what they are doing to innocent Africans. They were being hypocrites; they were acting like innocent people, but on the inside they were corrupt and greedy. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like white washed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean" (Matthew 23:27). This verse aligns with the novel because the same thing is happening in the Bible. The Pharisees were claiming to be doing something right, but they were corrupted hypocrites, blind to the truth of what was right. This all relates directly to the novel. The company had been portrayed as heroes going to bring the savages, who were blind to the aspect of civilization, back into the light by civilizing them. Everything the Europeans saw on the outside was false, on the inside, the company was not at all heroic; it was full of corruption and