Man's Journey Into Self In The Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now

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back through time. He sees the unsettled Wilderness and feel the darkness of it's solitude. Marlow comes across simpler cannibalistic cultures along the banks. The deeper into the jungle he goes, the more regressive the inhabitants seem.
Kurtz had lived in the Congo, and was separated from his own culture for quite some time. He had once been considered an honorable man, but the jungle changed him greatly. Here, secluded from the rest of his own society, he discovered his evil side and became corrupted by his power and solitude. Here, secluded from the rest of the society, he discovered his evil side and became corrupted by his power and solitude. Marlow tells the reader about the Ivory and Kurtz kept as his own, and that he had no restraint, and was "a tree swayed by the wind". Marlow mentions the human heads displayed on posts that "showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts". Conrad also tells us that "his nerves went wrong, ...

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