msm92's Full Review: Joseph Conrad, Paul B. Armstrong, R. G. Hampson, P...
Kurtz, who was Joseph Conrad’s main character in the Heart of Darkness, was initially a metaphor European imperialism. However, Kurtz's journey deep into the Congo revealed the truth of his initial imperialistic intent. His experience proved the irrelevancy of the imperialist intent as he discovered its true, dark meaning; “civilizing” the “primal” aspect of the Congo was vieled by greed and the idea of possessing ivory and the abundant natural resources of the Congolese basin. Modernism was Kurtz’s entryway into the darker truths of the unfathomable mischief that he discovers in the jungle. Kurtz's vigorous curiosity was the driving force of his desire to step over the edge into the source of himself and the dynamic powers that permeate the jungle. He had ironically become a subject of oppression while being born in an oppressing culture; he had broken the walls of “civilization” and in the process, he had begun to use his endowed gifts to their potential by assimilating into the indigenous cultures which were being oppressed by modernism.
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