Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a story of Marlow's journey down the Congo River to find a man named Kurtz.

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a story of Marlow's journey down the Congo River to find a man named Kurtz. In the book Conrad uses light to symbolize any matter that is positive such as the scene on the Nellie at the start of the story and uses darkness to symbolize the negatives such as the suffering of the natives. Throughout the book darkness has a much stronger presence which shows the exploitation and …

…was the life along the Congo. <Tab/>The darkness of the story is the horror of the Congo. It is the native exploitation and the starvation and other cruelties that the Europeans inflicted on them. The truth of the darkness is that once you are exposed to the darkness for a time it changes you. You become a power hungry man who will stop at nothing to get what you want.