Heart of Darkness "- By Joseph Conrad
Author: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad is remembered for novels like Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, who drew on his experience as a mariner and addressed profound themes of nature and existence. Joseph Conrad is remembered for novels like Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, who drew on his experience as a mariner and addressed profound themes of nature and existence. A writer of complex skills and striking insight, but above all an intensely personal vision, he has been highly regarded as one of the greatest English novelists.

Type of Work: novella
Setting: on the deck of the nellie; the Congo River
Main characters: Marlow, Mr.Kurtz, The Manager, The Accountant, The Harlequin, The Intended, Kurtz's Native Mistress
Motifs: journey; dark of civilization
About The Novella:
Heart of Darkness is structured as aFrame tale, not a first-person narrative. Marlow's story is told by the anonymous narrator who is listening to Marlow on the deck of the Nellie. Conrad's frame narrator, like the reader, learns that his ideas about European imperialism is a number of lies that he wholeheartedly believed. By the end of the novella, Marlow's tale Only the narrator - and the reader - understand Marlow's initial point: "Civilized" Europe was once a "dark place," and it has only become more morally dark through the activities of the company.
Charlie Marlow finds work as a ship's commander for a trading company in Africa, near the Congo River. He travels from France to the Western African coast on a steamer, then takes a boat to the trading company's Inner Station.
On his journey, Marlow is the right of the black slaves. He arrives to find that the boat he gets It will take months to repair
Marlow repeatedly hears about a man named Kurtz, who also works for the trading company. There are many rumors about Kurtz: that he's ill, that he's going to be promoted, that he and Marlow are alike
Marlow later learns that Kurtz was the one who ordered a attack on the boat. He has gone mad, and the natives worship him like a god After Kurtz dies, Marlow returns to Europe.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad is remembered for novels like Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, who drew on his experience as a mariner and addressed profound themes of nature and existence. Joseph Conrad is remembered for novels like Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, who drew on his experience as a mariner and addressed profound themes of nature and existence. A writer of complex skills and striking insight, but above all an intensely personal vision, he has been highly regarded as one of the greatest English novelists.

Type of Work: novella
Setting: on the deck of the nellie; the Congo River
Main characters: Marlow, Mr.Kurtz, The Manager, The Accountant, The Harlequin, The Intended, Kurtz's Native Mistress
Motifs: journey; dark of civilization
About The Novella:
Heart of Darkness is structured as aFrame tale, not a first-person narrative. Marlow's story is told by the anonymous narrator who is listening to Marlow on the deck of the Nellie. Conrad's frame narrator, like the reader, learns that his ideas about European imperialism is a number of lies that he wholeheartedly believed. By the end of the novella, Marlow's tale Only the narrator - and the reader - understand Marlow's initial point: "Civilized" Europe was once a "dark place," and it has only become more morally dark through the activities of the company.
Charlie Marlow finds work as a ship's commander for a trading company in Africa, near the Congo River. He travels from France to the Western African coast on a steamer, then takes a boat to the trading company's Inner Station.
On his journey, Marlow is the right of the black slaves. He arrives to find that the boat he gets It will take months to repair
Marlow repeatedly hears about a man named Kurtz, who also works for the trading company. There are many rumors about Kurtz: that he's ill, that he's going to be promoted, that he and Marlow are alike
Marlow later learns that Kurtz was the one who ordered a attack on the boat. He has gone mad, and the natives worship him like a god After Kurtz dies, Marlow returns to Europe.
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