Heart Of Darkness Reflection Essay

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a mysterious book where a man named Marlow is sent on a journey to someone named Kurtz. Marlow is enthusiastic about traveling so that 's how he got to this job. As soon as he got the job he is sent on a journey to work for kurtz. Kurtz is a well respected man whether it be for good as Marlow thinks or bad as others else thinks. On the journey Marlow mind starts to change as he witnesses more and more things that he is puzzled by and can 't make sense in his head. Sometimes us as human beings don 't want to accept or we are blinded by the things that happen around us.

“Ever any madness in your family? He asked, in a matter-of-fact tone. I felt very annoyed .’ Is that question in the interests of science,too?’ It would be , he said, without taking notice of my irritation, ‘interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals , on the spot, but…” (17)This is what the

You are of the new gang -the gang of virtue. The same people who sent him specially also recommended you.”(41) The brickmaker told this to marlow after asking about kurtz. So the brickmaker is basically telling marlow that he is meant to be the next face of the best station. If he does become the new kurtz the responsibilities will be pretty hard and will kill him or like the doctor said mess him up mentally. I feel the same way as Jiping Zhao in The Tragedy of Kurtz--An Analysis of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness. In the analysis it says that he doesn 't really do it for him he is just the face for the company. So basically his actions are carried out by the company they aren 't his own actions. This is also the reason people fear him and look at him so high. He can do whatever he want and really no one can really punish him. Like all the natives that he was abusing and or