Heart_Of_Darkness

Heart Of Darkness “Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge' He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision-he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!” What horror is Kurtz recounting as his final words' Truths lie inside the inner soul of all human beings, it is just a matter of when and where they will come out. Kurtz choose to let his be known as his passing words. An epiphany, a passing glimpse, the realization of what he has created and destroyed, willingly, or blindly going about hacking through the jungle blindfolded, searching for something of extrinsic importance. The narrator of Heart of Darkness never lets the reader know what Kurtz was speaking about. I believe Conrad wanted his audience to judge for themselves the importance of Kurtz’s words. Finding literal, as well as deeper meanings, in the novel becomes very apparent when basing the context of Kurtz’s words from a thematic standpoint. His word’s can be broken down on three levels: the first, dealing with the obvious literally sense of horror representing all the dead Africans, who heart, darkness, kurtz, savagery, africans, nature, european, out, company, time, now, kurtz’s, horror, african, words, through, savage, rights, man, being, very, true, task, primitive, person, management, longer, life, ivory, humans, human, every, each, because, take, own, new, need