Heart of Darkness
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In Heart of Darkness, the character of Marlow, a persona for the author used in several stories and novels, makes a journey from civilization into the darkest part of Africa to bring back a man named Kurtz who has gone into the interior and shed his civilized exterior to degenerate into the primitive. The meaning of "heart of darkness" is multiple, with different levels of darkness and different levels of journeying into the darkness. The primary reference is to the human heart. For Conrad, the individual possesses within himself the possibility of the primitive, but society and civilization have created a framework of control by which the individual can escape from that state. Marlow makes a journey from civilization into the jungle, into the primitive, and he also makes a journey into his own heart and the darkness he finds there. This jour
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