The Darkness in Heart of Darkness

In this essay, the author

• Opines that a certain degree of darkness lies within every person.
• Describes the opportunities to reach a point in personal growth, and to gain self-esteem.
• Explains that the absolute evil, we can see the two products of an inner evil which has
• Analyzes how lord of the flies points out how easily people can be overtaken by people.
• Opines that every life contains evil and the product of evil which lies in all of life.
• Opines that when people lack the aspect of civility in their lives, they too will lack.
• Analyzes how the desolate island in the lord of the flies represents chaos to overpower.
• Opines that the island is a reef out in the reef.
• Opines that we've got to have rules and obey them.
• Analyzes how he incorporates the conch which aids in the order of the island.
• Quotes golding's quote, "we can't do this, the savages, they would crush us."
• Opines that they don't know how this would have struck them.
• Opines that the lack of order and reason in most cases isn't a match for the absence of reason.
• Compares the darkness which surfaced in kurtz and the natives of the region.
• Compares kurtz's greed for money and power to jack and the hunters.
• Explains that kurtz's growth was not only a result of the jungle, but it was also shown through the show.
• Narrates how he almost lost his sense and civility, despite having the most tests.
• Opines that perhaps they knew before but don't know now 'cos we'll know where we are.
• Opines that life is a test, but the important thing is that you learn from it.
• Explains that when marlow's time came to take his test, it was not necessarily that he took the test.
• Opines that kurtz might have attempted the journey or test he was faced with.
• Opines that if the test but failed, an action which can, but not in these two cases, result in a negative result.
• Explains that the evil which lies within all of us has a third and final way of showing it.
• Opines that tests of life, it is imperative that one takes the test, for one cannot avoid it.
• Opines that the lack of civility and restraints for good is the test which we must face.
• Explains that the ones that result in goodness are a learning experience in which one learns.
• Compares the island in lord of the flies and the congo in the heart of darkness.
• Explains that every person must undergo the ultimate test at some point in their life time.
• Opines that it is better to attempt the test and fail than to have never taken it.
• Explains that piggy and ralph can be compared to marlow in the fact that they had either passed the test or not.
• Explains that darkness within them surfaced due to that fact that not only did they fail to take the test of life, but they appeared to be content with the situation.
• Explains that commit acts as a channel in which evil or darkness will begin to show. the dark forces which lay in jack and his group were confirmed by their final direct.