The novel Heart of Darkness

The novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a very powerful piece of writing that discusses the importance of human society and its good and bad affects on men. This novel took place in two very different places the so-called "civilized London" and the "uncivilized Africa" which had conflicting cultures. Joseph Conrad illustrates through his intense novel that although one may claim to be in a "civilized" society but when compared to a different …

…people contain. Through Marlow we see that Africa may be uncivilized and naïve but they possess a quality that most of the civilized societies do not have "innocence" where the beauty of this impenetrable thing is unexplored and beautiful to the ones that have been stripped of it where the innocence lies in the heart and is possessed by the natives who live in the Heart of Darkness, the land of impenetrable innocence, Africa.