The Heart of Darkness
There are many aspects in the areas of light and dark other than their color schemes. The two represent figurative and objective parts of the story "The Heart of Darkness" written by Joseph Conrad. In the novel the main characters Marlow and Kurtz encounter many strange interactions with the Congo, its surroundings, and even themselves. These inevitably create different images of dark and light within the characters. According to Conrad the emphasis on the images of light and dark play an important role on how characters carry themselves as well as develop throughout the novel. As the expedition goes on the Congo ultimately releases the darkness that is hidden inside Marlow and Kurtz. When Marlow and Kurtz began their journey through the Congo they had their own sense of personality and character. As they made their way further and further into the jungle a certain power took over them creating different personas than before. "The sun sank low...as if about to go out suddenly stricken by death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men" (Conrad 2). Even before entering the jungle there is a change in the way that the men aboard the ship feel, "suddenly stricken by death by the touch of t
Kurtz gives the impression that he always had a dark side to him, this darkness can be compared with a character from the Star Wars movies named Anakin Skywalker aka Darth Vader. As for Marlow it was more beneath the surface and his fascination with Kurtz. It appears as if he knows that Kurtz has a darkness within with out even having conversations with him. There was an instance where Marlow was standing above a dead man and had sort of an epiphany: "I had been looking forward to. In Kurtz's case it was his greed for the ivory and power and all that falls into that category. the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me. In the case of Skywalker he had so much hatred towards others he became a whole different person eventually turning against those he loved and almost killing his own son. The point was in his being a gifted creature.
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