Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness

Lightness vs Darkness plays a big role in the Heart of Darkness, it underlies knowledge and ignorance through the story. Light and darkness are used in the events and locations in the story. The protagonist, Marlow uses light and darkness to describe where he is and how it will play an important role later on. By using these motifs, it can also tell readers if there is real culture or more savagery in the story and the differences between the good and the bad. In this story, Marlow is remembering his journey through the Congo. When thinking of the Congo, he remembers the feelings and sadness he had towards the natives of that country. By using his memories, he is giving the readers and effect on the light and darkness of the jungle. Conrad uses Marlow to show the darkness of England in the beginning of the story. As he describes it as dark and uncivilized. The people in the story are out until dark trying to finish anything that they were doing and trying to get home as quickly as possible. The darkness represents the struggle that they are going through and the light could represent what they were trying to get through. Most of the characters in the story are considered cold hearted for this since they are mysterious figures in need of a path that leads them directly to the …show more content…
The light is the natives that use to live in Africa, back then they were happy and peaceful but then the white men came and conquered their land. They disturbed the natives in Africa and brought the darkness that foils the light. By taking away the light, the natives became something they are not. They turned into carnivores, and this turned Marlow to becomes sympathetic towards them. Although Marlow and Kurtz were one of the people that brought darkness into the heart of Africa, they could still see what they were causing and tried not to feel bad for