Heart
of Darkness by
Joseph Conrad (Questions
with Answers)
Do
you agree with the view that the exploration
of evil is one of the major themes in
The Heart of Darkness.
Conrad's
The Heart of Darkness says
that everybody has within oneself vulnerability,
fragility, weakness and strong fear
of being deviated from the essential
norms and values. All of us possess
within ourselves basic evils. In our
day to day normal life this basic hidden
evils don't emerge strongly and overwhelmingly.
But when we enter in to that zone which
fires our evils, these evils becomes
insurmountable and unconquerable. These
evils becomes so threatening that they
can claim our lives. For example greed
and lust for power and prosperity is
invisibly hidden in the innermost part
of our life. At the normal state of
our life we are not aware of how life
threatening they are. But the moment
we enter in to the atmosphere of temptation
we succumbs to the temptation of evils
if we have no substance to prevent.
In the novel there is a unique and pretty
extraordinary genious Kurtz. He is a
superb European.
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He represents a highly refined
civilized, European, moral
self. Amidst the enchanting
glow and glamour of his civivlized
personality all basic evils
remained unknown. But as soon
as Kurtz landed on the soil
of Congo, his civilized personality
and self began to dwindle
and disintegrate. His cilvilized
self became so torn that he
became the avatar of the natives.
He was so engulfed by barbarism
that he began to say, 'Extreminate
all the brutes'. One step
ahead, he becomes so cruel
that he was ready to shoot
his own bosom friend just
for a sake of a small piece
of ivory. Read
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Kurtz's
fall in The Heart of Darkness.
Kurtz
is one of the representatives of European
values. He is a petty tyrant, a dying
god, an embodiment of Europe. Read
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The
symbolism of light and Darkness in The
Heart of Darkness.
The
symbolic meaning of light and darkness
play the central role in the novel The
Heart of Darkness. Read
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Relation
between colonizer and colonized in The
Heart of Darkness.
Joseph
Conrad's The Heart of Darkness
explores the intimate relation between
colonizer and colonized. Read
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