Essay about The Descriptiveness of Conrads Heart of...

Heart of Darkness was written by Joseph Conrad in 1902. Before it was published it appeared in a 3-part series in Blackwood’s magazine. The story tells of a detailed incident when Marlow who takes over the assignment of the captain of a ferry-boat travels into the darkness. He was employed by the Belgian Trading company. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however while doing his job, he comes across a person called Kurtz to whom he has to give the ivories after he have collected them. Kurtz is a very reputed man throughout the region and is known by everyone. The novella starts as the main character Marlow at the Thames River in the evening with several other people and starts telling the story about how he entered into the†¦show more content†¦Neither of them would be particularly keen to take direct action against Kurtz; they would much prefer a less involved of removing him from their worries. Another reference to devils and their religious context wh en Marlow describes Eldorado Exploring Expedition as a visitation—the word can has two meanings; one of it as we all know can be a formal visit or inspection. However it can also be used a divine form of punishment. It is very classic example of how the novel can have different meanings. Furthermore, Marlow describes how the shadows of the manager and his uncle â€Å"trails behind them slowly over the tall grasses without bending a single blade†, in this obvious but unnecessary statement, Conrad wants to say that the manager and his uncle walked through in some ghostly way that they didn’t even bend a grass. This statement shows that the men are light and hollow resembling to what is was said before â€Å"men who come out here should have no entrails† and while Marlow was describing the manager’s spy as â€Å"this papier-mache Mephistopheles† with â€Å"nothing inside but loose dirt† Heart of Darkness acted like a critique to the European civilisation. One example of his critiques is the description of Kurtz. Kurtz was considered very powerful and