Heart Of Darkness Research Paper

The True Heart of Darkness In Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad one illuminating moment that helps decode the meaning of this book was the moment of Kurtz’s death. When Marlow first met Kurtz, Marlow said that Kurtz claimed everything as his own. It was his ivory, his river, his Intended. Even on his deathbed everything still belonged to him his face looked like it would open up and swallow up the whole world when Marlow first saw him. In the jungle though, everything, in his mind was his because he had absolute power, he was the “God” of the jungle and its people. His power just gave birth to all of his greed. It gave him the right to threaten to kill the Russian harlequin man when he had some ivory; the right to kill Africans when they