Heart Of Darkness
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-born author who wrote in English. He became famous for the novels and short stories that he wrote about the sea.
Conrad left Poland at the age of 16 and arrived in England at the age of 20, unable to speak English. During the next 16 years he worked his way up from deckhand to captain in the British Merchant Navy and so mastered his adopted language and was able to write some of its greatest novels.
Conrad used experiences of his life in many of his works. From his voyages in the Indian Ocean and Malay Archipelago came some of his best-known novels. He began with his novel Almayer’s Folly (1895) set in Borneo. is based on his voyage up ...
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areas of the world. Conrad also wrote two absorbing novels about revolutionaries in Europe.
Conrad was not particularly interested in character for its own sake. He was most interested in men who were actively pursuing their aims in life like the captain of the Narcissus novel, who triumphs over weakness and evil. More often, Conrad’s heroes yield to the powers of weakness and evil in them than in others. But Conrad was not exactly a pessimist. He affirmed the value of the old-fashioned virtues such as courage, fidelity, and discipline. Conrad was modern in realizing how enormously difficult it is for people to practice such virtues.
Born and raised in an era of world revolution, Conrad certainly knew the effects any change could leave on a society or nation. He was influenced socially simply because he lived during this time. His influences were probably the strongest as a child when he moved to another country and suffered much from the lack of language, ...
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heart of the Congo. The story presents attacks by the natives, descriptions of the jungle and the river, and characteristics of white men who invade the jungle to bring out ivory. But the Congo is also s symbolic journey into blackness central to the heart and soul of a man, a journey deep into primeval passions, superstition and lust. Those who like the district manager, Marlow, undertake this journey simply to rob the natives of ivory without any awareness of the importance of the central darkness. Similarly, Marlow who is only an observer, never centrally involved, can survive to tell the story later. However, those like Kurtz are aware of the darkness, which hope, with conscious ...
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