Heart Of Darkness Symbolism Analysis

Through Joseph Conrad 's great work the heart of darkness one can see that throughout his main novel he used common themes and used many literary elements, but one of the most remarkable things that Joseph Conrad used in his novel that truly made it unique was his usage of symbolism. Joseph Conrad’s usage of symbolism was ahead of his time and has truly found its appreciation in the current time but as it is noted through the various examples before Joseph usage of symbolism was so essential and predominant his work especially in the work “Heart of darkness”, that one could not take symbolism away from Joseph novel for if the did they would lose its entire essence and conciseness. For joseph Conrad used symbolism hand in and enthralled his symbolism in many events in his novel to the …show more content…
The reason why Marlow was even hired as a steamboat captain was because Fresleven the captain before him was killed in scuffle by a local tribe. The Belgian company was highly eager to hire any caption to quickly fulfill the responsibility Fresleven, which was transporting great amounts of ivory from the inner parts of the Congo River to the coast. This was the major factor that lead to Marlow being hired, for if it was not for the ivory the Belgian company would have waited for a more qualified person to fill the position, but the company could not afford such time for the more time they waited to find a more qualified captain the more ivory they were endangered of losing and the company only thought about profit and was blinded by greed and rushed to hire anyone to fill the position, and thus this lead to the beginning of Marlow’s journey that would forever change