Kurtz

Darkness” (Originally published by Blackwood’s Magazine, 1902) and Francis Ford Coppola’s film, “Apocalypse Now” (Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and distributed by United Artists, 1979) both told through a journey down a river to find a man named Kurtz and along the way, the men that are apart of these journeys discover the darkness of the human condition. In both, “Heart of Darkness” and “Apocalypse Now,” have river journeys that delve deeper into darkness but contrast in that “Apocalypse…

Dr. Ruthanne Kurtz, I was able to gain a better understanding of how health professionals perceive ethics. Dr. Kurtz is a registered nurse with a Doctorate in nursing, she explained to me how she initially started working as a nurse in order to support her children as a single parent. She told me stories about how she grew up working with her grandmother in a nursing home on the weekends when she was young, and it sparked her initial interest to work in the healthcare field. Dr. Kurtz stated…

throughout the centuries. In “Heart of Darkness” one of the major themes is human nature and whether people are naturally good or evil. Conrad uses Marlow and Kurtz as vessels to explore human nature and to send a message to his audience. By examining the story, the reader can see the difference in how Marlow represents good in humanity, how Kurtz represents evil, and how these two characters sends a message to Conrad’s readers. In “Heart of Darkness” Marlow represents the good in human…

The complex novel, Heart of Darkness, is mainly a tale of Marlow's journey to the Congo. In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's writing is very contemplative with detail. In the Heart of Darkness, Conrad had a background with his seafaring years where Conrad was a marine merchant. Once he rose in rank and began his voyages around the world, he sailed to India, Singapore, Australia, and Africa which gave him experiences that he would later interpret in his fiction. Joseph Conrad writing style…

that they are wrong, but he persists. When addressing his loyalty to Kurtz Marlow says, “it was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice” (Conrad 77). Marlow is serious about his beliefs of Kurtz. Although the manager doesn’t approve of Kurtz’s ways, Marlow thinks he’s a remarkable man. Marlow judges Kurtz and sees qualities in Kurtz that others do not such as how Kurtz brings out the better in his people. Kurtz commits crazy, dark actions, but Marlow remains loyal to his…

Witnessing these different societies causes Kurtz to behave differently depending on which society he is taking part in. While in Europe, Kurtz is known as a very diverse individual. He is “in charge of a trading post, a very important one, in the true ivory-country” (Conrad, 31). This quote expressed how ideally Kurtz fit into the European society and how important he is. Kurtz does not only fit well into European’s society but also Congo’s. While Kurtz is trading ivory at a port in Congo, he…

Darkness, though fails to take Kurtz back to London alive, Marlow found his nature and changed a lot when going back to London. On the other side, primarily intends to find the ultimate and final secret about life, Marlow goes to find Kurtz; but Kurtz leaves him nothing except “The horror! The horror!”, the quest of Marlow is unfulfilled; Marlow does not have a clear view about imperialism, “offers something unarticulated about imperialism.” As for the film, after Kurtz died, the local citizens…

dramatic output comes at a cost. Kurtz sacrificed his morals, however many he had at some point, and took “a high seat amongst the devils of the land” (122) quite literally, Marlow asserts. He raided villages, put rebel’s heads on sticks around his house, and sent some of his minions to attack the steamboat. It is not that the jungle was any crueler to him than it was to the Russian, though Marlow believes otherwise, but “that there was something wanting in [Kurtz]” (133), some missing or…

natives faced. The film being set in a different time zones, can lead to a better or different interpretation of “Heart of Darkness”. In the novel Marlow was a mere onlooker and witnessed Kurtz loose his mind to the practice of imperialism as the Victorian Age had just ended, while Willard was sent out not to oversee Kurtz, but actually restrain him after not following order from superiors in the rise of the Vietnam War. Watching the film, and seeing the novel represented in various forms of…

In the “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad, a man, Kurtz, has some confrontation with his dark self. This is both dangerous and enlightening. In the novel, the term "darkness" and “light” have a few different meanings. The difference between dark and light is uncivilized and civilized. Heart of Darkness is about a man 's journey into the darkness. The journey is both physically strenuous and descripted metaphorically: he travels to both the depths of the Belgian Congo and to the deepest regions…