Heart of Darkness: Kurtz Symbolism

In the heart of Darkness, where all things are essentially dark, such as the brutality of Imperialism, there lies one man who loses his conscious. He forgets all morals, he cannot see the line between right or wrong. In the novella, one finds Kurtz mysterious at first. With Marlow narrating his journey through the Congo just to find Kurtz, he eventually understands that Kurtz has gone mad. The Victorian lifestyle in which Kurtz is from is one of a moralistic living, everything must be proper, and everyone must be educated. However, Kurtz, the further he is from society, the more his ability to negotiate right verses wrong becomes extinct. With that said, being so far and so deep into the heart of Darkness, Africa, he has no concept of reality. He is in another world, Marlow describes how Kurtz beheaded the "savage" natives and placed their heads on pikes around the station, as a sort of caution or warning. Kurtz acts according to his animalistic desires. unlike modernized society, at his point of insanity that Kurtz was portrayed as, if he needed money, he would rob bank without hesitation. If he had strong sexual desires for another woman besides the one his is with, he will have an affair. In which he did. Kurtz becomes attracted to a native woman. Although she is described as uniquely beautiful, she is so devoted to Kurtz, that she is willing to do anything to keep him in the Congo, a mutual feeling. Therefore, upon Kurtz's consent, the native woman attacks the boat to keep Kurtz in Africa. While all of these evil deeds are occurring, the killing of natives, placing heads on pikes, having an affair with another woman, and commanding an attack on a steam boat; Kurtz's Intended has no idea of Kurtz's conformed mental processes. In the end of the novel, Kurtz is dying and before he dies he cries "The horror! The horror!" which can be defined as the universal meaning of his realization that all of his evil and immoral acts were wrong, or the real "horror"