Heart of Darkness: Good vs. Evil. In the Heart of Darkness, Conrad takes us on a journey into the soul of man. When the character Marlow travels into the jungle of Africa to find Kurtz, he realizes that he is in a place where the rules of society no longer constrain pure human nature, and the frighteningly raw truths about human beings can be observed first hand. Marlow finds that human nature is something unlimited …showed first 75 words of 1195 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1195 total…the truth of human nature within himself, mourning the terrible and traumatic end of the great man that Kurtz was and continued to be in his mind. Kurtz was great because he answered the question of human nature that haunts everyone; he found truth and fought the battle of good and evil, resigning to neither and both the same time, and at the end still able to judge himself with his own words, “The horror…”