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Heart Of Darkness; By Joseph Conrad - College Essay

Heart Of Darkness; By Joseph Conrad

A journey into the unknown "...darkness [that] was here yesterday" brings forth a sense of an embarked adventure not yet accomplished.
Heart of Darkness presents this meaning fully from the main character to the purpose of an unrescued grail, (which was similiar to the legendary King Aruthur's search for the holy grail a search for knowledge and rescue from evil"). Under no circumstance was the novel's grail anything but a "rescue" of the "god-like" Kurtz, Kurtz's journal and the Townson's Inquiry (An Inquiry into Some Points of Seamanship).
Charles Marlow, the main speaker in the novel, is also indirectly associated with a knight on a grail-less quest (or one with a false grail), a ...

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purpose.
Light and darkness contrasted throughout the novel as the "forces of evil and good." These contrasts also figuratively considered being civilized and uncivilized ( with the light representing civilization or the civilized side of the world and the dark representing the uncivilized or savage side of the world.) Even from the beginning of the novel darkness is apparent, when Marlow speaks of the "...very old times, when the Romans first came here [England]...cold, fog, disease, exile, death-death skulking in the air, in the water, in the bush...."
The most interesting foreshadowance of darkness occurs when Marlow arrives at the Belgian company's office. Omens of darkness presents themselves with "...the two women knitting black wool...guarding the door of Darkness, knitting black wool as for a warm pall..." or the mood of the Belgian's office before he enters it and when he waits to be called for his job interview. . He describes it as " ...a narrow and deserted ...

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