Heart Of Darkness Kurtz Hero Quotes
Joseph Conrad’s <Heart of Darkness>
The Path of Meaningful Life as a Hero
Every hero holds and acts on behalf of his conviction, no matter what it takes to pursue it. In Joseph Conrad’s , the protagonist Kurtz is willing to rebel against his society, and give up his life for his faith. Kurtz’s conviction, his dedication to the justice, and his unbiased acceptance of an exotic culture, indicates that he is a hero. Justice is Kurtz’s conviction, the driving force behind his actions. It is Kurtz’s motivator in detesting the situation in Africa, where European trading companies build stations to deplore natural resources. In these stations, Europeans reprieve everything from indigenous Africans: their land, their ivory, and their lives. The Africans “are called criminals, and the outraged law.” (17) These actions violate Kurtz’s justice, prompting him to come up with a revolutionary solution—raiding an African tribe with the other African tribe. Kurtz “approached them with the might as a deity,” (63) and exerts his new clout to lead attacks on other tribes. This operation is a great success; Kurtz “sends in as much ivory as all the others put …show more content…
Kurtz asserts, “ivory..is really mine. The company did not pay for it. I collected it myself at a very great personal risk. I am afraid they…claim it as theirs” (95), underscoring his challenging to Imperialism. Kurtz pays handsomely for the ivory: his payment includes threat from the enemy tribes, the malady due to his stress, and so on. Kurtz did not pay such exorbitant prize for accumulation of wealth, but for extrication of Africans from merciless Imperialism. To defend his ivory and his tribe, Kurtz attacks a boat from other stations, fearing that they would end his protection. When he is forced to be taken back to Europe, he joins his tribe’s occult ceremony and ignores the warning that he “will be utterly lost”
The Path of Meaningful Life as a Hero
Every hero holds and acts on behalf of his conviction, no matter what it takes to pursue it. In Joseph Conrad’s , the protagonist Kurtz is willing to rebel against his society, and give up his life for his faith. Kurtz’s conviction, his dedication to the justice, and his unbiased acceptance of an exotic culture, indicates that he is a hero. Justice is Kurtz’s conviction, the driving force behind his actions. It is Kurtz’s motivator in detesting the situation in Africa, where European trading companies build stations to deplore natural resources. In these stations, Europeans reprieve everything from indigenous Africans: their land, their ivory, and their lives. The Africans “are called criminals, and the outraged law.” (17) These actions violate Kurtz’s justice, prompting him to come up with a revolutionary solution—raiding an African tribe with the other African tribe. Kurtz “approached them with the might as a deity,” (63) and exerts his new clout to lead attacks on other tribes. This operation is a great success; Kurtz “sends in as much ivory as all the others put …show more content…
Kurtz asserts, “ivory..is really mine. The company did not pay for it. I collected it myself at a very great personal risk. I am afraid they…claim it as theirs” (95), underscoring his challenging to Imperialism. Kurtz pays handsomely for the ivory: his payment includes threat from the enemy tribes, the malady due to his stress, and so on. Kurtz did not pay such exorbitant prize for accumulation of wealth, but for extrication of Africans from merciless Imperialism. To defend his ivory and his tribe, Kurtz attacks a boat from other stations, fearing that they would end his protection. When he is forced to be taken back to Europe, he joins his tribe’s occult ceremony and ignores the warning that he “will be utterly lost”