Darkness In Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness

Joseph Conrad did not fluently speak English until his late teen years, however he outshone the written English language, with several of his works having been modified into film. Conrad went through a tough life as a child, and when he was only three, his father was imprisoned Warsaw for his believed radical political relationships until the family was banished to northern Russia in 1861. In 1869, Conrad's parents died due to tuberculosis, and he was led to live with his uncle in Switzerland. While living with his uncle, Conrad convinced his uncle to let him sail, where most of his adventures and journeys placed the base for most of his works. In 1890 he navigated towards the Congo River, an expedition that offered much of the information for his highly observed work Heart of Darkness. The occurrences portrayed in Heart of Darkness could have happened anywhere, but Conrad selected the Congo for the sentiment and impression of the mood, the people involved, and the lifestyle there. The title reflects "heart of darkness" from within men, who can occasionally use others for their own value and gain, getting rid of life as if it had no importance. The title may also signify the Congo itself, due to the darkness and …show more content…
The main example of this darkness is through the manager Kurtz, who executes such corruption in the jungles that he ultimately develops an illness and dies. The character of Kurtz could be studied as an incentive for revolution, and the icon for the Europeans' disaster in the Congo. Oblivious of his own immorality, Kurtz is incapable to match the darkness inside of him. There is a demand of moral and immoral that is brought up in Heart of Darkness; the ideas of "light" and "dark" in which the obscurity in Africa is isolated from its muskiness and the lightness in Europe being distant from the virtuousness of