Early on, Marlow happens upon two women: "a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar...as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to. Two women, one fat and the other slim...knitting black wool." The two witch like women, both in their appearance and in the way in which they foreshadowed the darkness that Marlow was to encounter later in the story. Like a crystal ball, predicting the trouble that he would get himself into once he reaches the Congo region. The sentences leading into the scene set the stage for Marlow's first experience with the imagery used to describe the darkness that the Congo possesses.
             We follow Marlow to the Congo where he experiences blackness and darkness in the jungle. Marlow meets the manager and discovers his hatred of those better than himself (Kurtz). The Africans are definitely dark in their color as well as the way they are portrayed in the story. In Chinua Achebe's An image of Africa, Achebe states, "Heart if darkness projects the image if Africa as 'the other world,' the antitheses of Europe and therefore of civilization." Conrad unknowingly or deliberately attacks the Africans and their lifestyle in the jungle by assuming it uncivilized. He introduced Africans as vile creatures, hated by every white man. Achebe implies that Conrad is taking a shot at Africans with his dark description of them and their civilization. When, in actuality, the description adds effectively to the light and dark imagery.
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