The Heart of Darkness.

The Heart of Darkness

Critical Review of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness The understanding of evil and its genesis could not be achieved 
without submerging into the reality of iniquity. In Joseph Conrad's 
"Heart of Darkness", Marlow went through an unsurpassable 
physiological burden of the Congo River to understand the mystic and 
the brilliance of Kurtz's dark and destructive mind and soul; the 
resemblance of true evil. 

This novel portrays the tragic outcome of the severe European dominion 
over the helpless African population and the destruction of 
fundamental human conventions and beliefs. The ignorance and 
misunderstanding with which the colonists were driven to imaginary 
wealth and authority nourished the hidden potential of evil that lies 
within each person and brought a great wave of disaster to the Congo 
River. 

The novel places us into the epicenter of mysterious Congo Jungle, 
full of darkness, savagery, greed and death. Marlow is another ruined 
soul trying to conquer the desolation and disturbance of the Congo 
River. The gloominess of the setting is encouraged by dirty with silt 
river water, and hot tropically climate; which at times is almost 
excruciating. The journey up the river might symbolize a road to hell, 
encountering no salutary and positive things, yet encouraging 
suffering and physiological breakdown.