Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Out of the Heart of Darkness

“The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz’s life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.” (Conrad 103).

This passage shows an obvious parallel between the “heart of darkness,” meaning the mysterious Congo river down which the crew is blindly floating, and Kurtz, being also dark and mysterious.

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