Darkness as Symbolism in Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad's "heart of darkness" in a short story written in 1899 felt the two people who faced their identity they thought they were civilized Europeans, Please do not give up myself and morality in the danger that took risk. How to use "darkness" appears in the title and the whole story of the book and has many meanings that it is difficult to understand before the story develops, but when you read the story the meaning of "darkness" It is not constant but it is based on it. The background is different.

The darkness of the mind is filled with every environment, scene, and character in Joseph Conrad's novel "Darkness of the Mind". The darkness symbolizes the moral turmoil Charlie Marlow encounters and the moral reconciliation he himself has while looking for a cargo. Murrow 's ethics has been challenged many times over the Congo River when he returned to Brussels through this book. Charlie Marlow depicts the behavior of colonialists, "Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness is pretending to be written in 1899 near the end of African imperialism African plunder is looking for ivory and glory One of the most important themes of dark heart is the psychological problem that the jungle can not produce Because of the collapse of social customs, the character of dark heart is put to corruption It is not just to be exposed.

The symbolic meaning of light and darkness plays a central role in the novel "darkness of the mind". If we try to see the meaning of light, it means brightness, knowledge, ability in all fields, life, perfection etc. On the other hand, darkness refers to the two aspects of darkness, darkness, literacy, death, ignorance, incompetence, etc, which are applied quite symbolically throughout the novel. In other words, the whole novel moves between the relationship between the symbol of light and the symbol of darkness. A short and easy story of this novel is that Marlow believes that he has a bright light, and his representative candidate Kurz is shining in a different way in a so-called dark area. According to Marlow and Kurtz, people in Africa are in the dark. However, the reality is suitable for other directions. At the end of the novel, it is implicitly said that the darkness is actually what the so-called civilization Caucasians have.