In Heart Of Darkness, we meet three women with significant roles. Fresleven: A former captain of the steamer.The men aboard the Nellie: Marlow’s friends.Aunt: Marlow’s doting relative who gets him a place with the Company.Kurtz’s Intended: Kurtz’s naïve fiancée.Kurtz’s African mistress: A heavily jeweled beautiful woman.Helmsman: A pilot trained by Marlow’s predecessor.Russian trader: A Russian sailor and devotee of Kurtz.Cannibals: Hired natives as the crew of the steamer.Pilgrims: The insatiable agents of the Central Station.Chief accountant: An efficient worker careful about his appearance.General manager: The one who runs the Central Station.Kurtz: The Inner Station’s chief and Marlow’s quest.Here are the characters from the Heart Of Darkness. Are you ready for some Heart Of Darkness in depth summary? Don’t hesitate to sue our summary if you need to write a book report. This article will focus on Joseph Conrad Heart Of Darkness summary.

In his book, Conrad compares London, the “greatest town on earth,” to Africa, as places of darkness. The Heart Of Darkness themes centers around the hypocrisy of imperialism and the resulting madness, darkness of the soul, lack of restraint, human folly, the absurdity of evil, futility, contradiction and ambivalence, racism, and hollowness. The novella revolves around the journey to the Congo Free State in the Heart of Africa through the Congo River. Heart of Darkness is a short novel (novella) written in 1899 by Joseph Conrad, a Polish-English novelist.

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