How Does Conrad's Heart Of Darkness Relate To The Spirit Of The Age?

Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Conrad and his protagonist narrator Marlow in Heart of Darkness describe a fear, a fear of forgetting. They are both afraid of forgetting the journeys and pasts. They have both experienced things many in that era and even in today’s era could never have dreamt of, travelling throughout the Congo. Just how does Conrad’s Heart of Darkness relate to the spirit of the age? How Conrad’s Heart of Darkness relates to the spirit of the age is that Conrad, along with his generation feared the loss of his memories as he grew older. Joseph Conrad, born in Poland in 1857, was christened as Josef Konrad Naelcs Korzeniowski. His family originally descended from wealth. Conrad is said to be a genius due to the fact that he able to achieve fame in not his first or second language, but his third language English. Conrad grew up with a childhood of uncertainty. His father, who was quite talented as a poet and French and English translator, was very committed to aiding in the Poland’s independence from Russia. Just prior to the uprising in Poland in 1863, Conrad’s father was arrested and exiled to a village not far from Moscow (Conrad, 3). …show more content…
Conrad would be adopted and raised by his uncle. Conrad struggled to adjust to life with his uncle. Conrad would finally convince his uncle to join him in the French merchant navy. Following his stint in the navy, Conrad would end up in the West Indies and Venezuela where he would waste away a small fortune, fail at love, find himself in the middle of a gun smuggling scheme for the Carlists (who, at the time, were trying to take the throne of Spain for Carlos de Bourbon), and would ultimately try to take his own life in 1878 (Conrad,