The Metaphors of Conrad's Heart of Darkness

In the dark heart metaphor dark heart text, the reader will see many metaphor. Repeated things, most impressive things, and most impressive are light and darkness, nature, Kurtz and Marlow. Repetitive use of light and dark images represents civilization and primality, and of course the eternal meaning of good and evil. But the deeper the reader, the more complex it becomes. Complexity is also the meaning behind the natural metaphor contained in the text.

In the story of Joseph Conrad's "Dark Heart", he uses many metaphors to explain the true "dark heart". One of the metaphors he used was very striking at the end of the story, which is a contrast between the Kurtz European and his "extraordinary" African mistress. His intention, a poor white European woman, represented pureness, kindness, and the illusion of European civilization, and was faithfully waiting for him to return to her side without knowing his adultery . A wild eye, a red-hot, inflamed, highly emotional African mistress works in the dark in the story and eventually becomes the subject of the story. The intention of Kurtz represents the illusion of the loss of Kurtz's civilization, and the African hostess symbolizes the jungle that destroyed him.

Joseph Conrad revealed collective unconscious psycho-geography in a tangled metaphorical reality of the serpentine Congo when the dark heart entered the barbaric shadow of the continent of Africa. Conrad's novel entered the unknown darkness in the center of Africa and brought that narrator Marlow to a personalized triadic journey, modern self-centered and earth-centered Odyssey. Self-integration into the soul, internally, encountered his double identity that Mahlow had picked up Kurtz (a dark shadow of European imperialism) with a powerful image of ivory. Dark meditation is personalized for the black goddess of Kurtz, the savage spouse of the underworld, and the Persephone on the skin of his porcelain, the innocent upper world.