HEART OF DARKNESS
BY JOSEPH CONRAD
created by Savino Carrella

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Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" the story of Marlow's job as an ivory transporter down the Congo. Through his journey, Marlow an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory-procurement , and Marlow is shocked upon seeing what the European have done to the natives. Joseph Conrad's of the darkness potentially inherent in all human hearts the 1979 film, "Apocalypse Now", although the setting was to Vietnam.
Conrad intentionally made "Heart of Darkness" hard read. He wanted the language of his novella to the reader feel like they were fighting through the , just like Marlow fought through the jungle in of Kurtz.
Heart of Darkness is structured as a frame , not a first-person narrative. Marlow's story is told by the narrator who listens to Marlow on the of the Nellie. Conrad's frame narrator, like the reader, learns that his about European imperialism are founded on a of lies that he wholeheartedly believed. By the of the novella, Marlow's tale significantly changes the narrator's attitude the ships and men of the past. Only the narrator — and the — understand Marlow's initial point: "Civilized" Europe was a "dark place," and it has become more morally dark through the activities of like the Company.
(adapted from Cliffsnotes)