heart of darkness

Most Literate people know that by going into the Heart of the Jungle, Conrad was trying to relay a message about the heart of man, and the story is worldly wide read as one of the most symbolic storys of the English language. The story recognizes Marlow, its narrator, not Kurtz or the brutality of the Belgian officials. Conrad wrote a statement on how he the story should be interpreted: “My task which I am …

…so many actual events and facts in the story that it was more of an eye opener to the past than entertaining. His confrontations as a man are both dangerous and enlightening. Perhaps man’s inhumanity to man is his greatest sin. Since the story closes with a lie, maybe Conrad was discovering and analyzing the two aspects of truth. Real truth and False truth, both of which, are ever present in the human soul