Is the lie that Marlow tell Kurtz’s ‘intended’, that is, his fiancé, a good thing or a bad? Does Marlow’s lie help to preserve some light from the events he describes or does it merely perpetuate or even deepen their darkness.
The book Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad exposes darkness, by exploring the negative side of imperialism. This was obtained by narrating Marlow’s trip (Marlow is the main character who narrates the story) to the Congo River while it was in time of conflict because of the nature of imperialism, “The Heart of Darkness”. He worked as a steamboat’s captain for a Belgian ivory company. In his trip he encounters one of the company’s agents, Mr. Kurtz, in the center of the dark jungle. Talents fulfilled Mr. Kurtz. He was a great speaker, a good painter, an awesome editor, and he even knew how to deal with money. Unfortunately Mr. Kurtz was mortally ill by the time of Marlow’s visit. Marlow admired Mr. Kurt although he made atrocities in this time of darkness in the Congo River. His admiration mostly didn’t have anything to do with Kurt’s’ perfect management of the art of rhetoric or any other talent, but he admired Kurt’s’ willingness he had to fight the darkness of his soul. An instant before Ku
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Heart of Darkness is a book that brings all the meanings of Darkness in the novel, by describing a place that had all the concepts of darkness. Kurt’s fiancé was told to keep her away from the dark truth. That is, the darkness of mistreatment against other races to do forced jobs and using them for their benefit. As a last attempt to preserve some light in Kurt’s memory, Marlow made a “White Lie” towards Mr. Everywhere in the world darkness has been represented as something not good, like lies, like hypocrisy and even death. If nobody knows about this, nobody will comprehend this and if nobody comprehends it nobody will fight against it. In her talk with Marlow she says, “of all his promises, and of all his greatness, of his generous mind, of his noble heart, nothing remains, nothing but memories”, implying that she sincerely thought he was something greater than what he was. rt’s’ death Kurt realized all the evil he had done; therefore, his last word in agony were, “The Horror, the Horror”. This cruel reality would only hurt her, keeping her few good memories of Kurt in an extreme darkness. Don’t you understand that I loved him, I loved him”(pg.
Therefore the darkness only deepens at the end of the story.
Marlow’s good intensions to maintain some light will only work superficially, because lies only help to increment darkness.
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