HEART OF DARKNESS BY BILL??? (U OF T STUDENT) In Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness it is the white invaders, who are, almost without exception, embodiments of blindness, selfishness, and cruelty. Even in the cognitive domain, where such positive phrases as to enlighten, for instance, are conventionally opposed to negative ones such as to be in the dark, the traditional expectations are reversed. In Kurtz's dark sketch painting of a woman, as we …showed first 75 words of 1773 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1773 total…words came to stand for what he saw and experienced along the way into the Inner Station. Kurtz's horror foreshadows the conditions of every human who has some form of darkness deep within waiting to be unleashed. Once it is released, this darkness leads to acts of horror and to a horror that descends as judgement on the perpetrator. The so-called “civilization” of Europe cannot channel it. It on rests hen it has consumed itself.