Social Structure Of Men and Women In Heart Of Darkness

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the meaning of the central story and specifically to develop his idea of colonialism by developing an image of its duality. Colonialism has a dual nature because it has one form in the country in which the colonial power operates and another at home, and there is a clear difference between the reality and the attitude taken by those who remain back home and who have a romantic idea of colonial life. Marlow is the bridge between the two worlds, and he also has a dual reaction to his own experience. On the one hand, he tries to tell the men on the boat at the beginning some of the truth, but he lies to Kurtz's Intended. He has journeyed to the heart of darkness not only in Africa but within himself, and while he has returned a wiser man, he still maintains some of the romantic notions that fueled the colonial era.
While the civilized individual contains the possibility of the primitive, society and civilization have created a framework of control by which the individual can ...

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moralist, and his place in the novel is to be superior in understanding compared to his audience on the deck. The men listening to him represent a spectrum of social types and values, and yet they appreciate what Marlow tells them, showing that his point of view somehow transcends their own more limited perspectives.
Even though Marlow does not fall as Kurtz does, Kurtz and Marlow are similar men, though Kurtz has abandoned his civilized veneer while Marlow only fears for the safety of his own. The moral collapse of Kurtz is an object lesson to Marlow both as an individual and as a representative of civilized society, and Marlow fulfills his functions in both terms when he refuses to ...

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