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	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
		The Intended - Kurtz’s bride to be who at the end of the book still thinks that Kurtz was the great man that she remembered him to be and Marlow doesn’t have the heart to tell her otherwise.
		Kurtz is very ill and needs to be taken back to England, but he does not want to go.
		She still remembers Kurtz as the great man he was before he left, and Marlow doesn’t tell her what he had become before he dies.
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	Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Georges-Antoine Kurtz is a fictional character in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness.
		Kurtz is also the author of a "pamphlet" regarding the civilization of the natives.
		Darkness is archetypally symbolic of the primeval, uncivilized, violent force of the human psyche.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurtz_(Heart_of_Darkness) (562 words)

	Heart of Darkness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heart of Darkness is a novella (published 1902) by Joseph Conrad.
		It is used to reflect the unknown, the concept of the "darkness of barbarism" contrasted with the "light of civilization", and the "spiritual darkness" of several characters.
		The theme of darkness lurking beneath the surface of even "civilized" persons is further explored through the character of Kurtz and through Marlow's passing sense of understanding with the Africans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heart_of_Darkness (1344 words)

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		Through the "horror" of Kurtz's behaviour, Conrad addresses the corruption of the coloniser as one who portrays 'civilisation' and 'progress' to the rest of the world, but is actually found out to be full of "vile desires" and "meanness".
		Heart of Darkness is not a racist book, indeed, the central thrust is that the brutality and corruption of Belgian colonialism in the Congo is what leads Kurtz to be the monster he is. Conrad's view of the world is a complex one, informed by his life experience and the time in which he lived.
		Heart of Darkness has two narrators - it cannot be taken for granted that either is expressing Conrad's own thoughts and opinions.
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	White Lies and Whited Sepulchres in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
		To tell Kurtz's fiancée the truth "would have opened the bleakness of his heart to her view; and she would have known the depths to which he had sunk" (Dowden 82).
		Through keeping Kurtz's Intended from the truth of his death Marlow reinforces his own chivalric image of himself: he would rather be chivalrous and lie than be cruel and tell the truth, recognizing how sustaining for her will be the illusion of a noble, sane, humane Kurtz.
		Wright remarks, mere symbols of "the larger darkness, which is in the heart of man" (160), a darkness in which lies the potential for evil and for good.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/conrad/pva52.html (2168 words)

	Conrad & Coppola
		As to the character of Kurtz, it is worth noting that while significant discrepancies exist between the depictions of Conrad and Coppola, the basic nature of the man remains fairly similar.
		Again, Colonel Kurtz is considered by the parties in charge to be insane, his methods unsound (a direct dialogue echo from the text.) This last fact, however, that Willard is from the beginning an assassin, is a fundamental difference between the film and the book.
		The dominant theme of Heart of Darkness is man's vulnerability to his own darker nature and the various ways in which this terrible, savage, proto-man can be unleashed; power, the jungle, "the Company," all serve as catalysts for the emergence of this hidden, voracious id-thing within us all, most realized in Kurtz.
	www.cyberpat.com /essays/coppola.html (1246 words)

	Heart of Darkness
		Kurtz finally dies, leaving his paper with Marlow and whispering “the horror, the horror” before he finally embarked on his trip to the other side.
		This is the heart of darkness Conrad refers to in the title, the darkness that is at the core of society, not in the jungle.
		When we see Kurtz he is very much in control of his faculties, and this is evident when he attempts to escape from the boat after they arrive at the inner station.
	web.pdx.edu /~krug/heart_of_darkness.htm (946 words)

	Heart of Darkness! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kurtz's character in "The Heart of Darkness" is portrayed in many different ways, and a failure is one of them.
		Kurtz's character described by Conrad was many different characteristics from a "superior being" powerful, symbol of the jungle, inhumane, vain, a rule breaker, and so many others.
		Kurtz had became of an "evil nature", but if he had not been tortured and harassed by the manager and his uncle then he would have never experienced or discovered this side of himself.
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	Heart Of Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As Kurtz himself states, "Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a centre for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing." (p.104).
		Obsessed with meeting Kurtz, Marlow finally realizes the man he is seeking has become evil and is exploiting the same people that he initially wanted to help.
		She is mourning Kurtz, the Kurtz she knew before he descended into the heart of darkness.
	www.beaconschool.org /~akars/h.o.d.html (729 words)

	SparkNotes: Heart of Darkness: Plot Overview
		Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities.
		Not long after, Marlow and his companions arrive at Kurtz’s Inner Station, expecting to find him dead, but a half-crazed Russian trader, who meets them as they come ashore, assures them that everything is fine and informs them that he is the one who left the wood.
		Marlow listens to Kurtz talk while he pilots the ship, and Kurtz entrusts Marlow with a packet of personal documents, including an eloquent pamphlet on civilizing the savages which ends with a scrawled message that says, “Exterminate all the brutes!” The steamer breaks down, and they have to stop for repairs.
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	NovelGuide: Heart of Darkness: Theme Analysis
		Marlow’s tale begins and ends in literal darkness; the setting of the novel is often dark, such as when the steamboat is socked in by fog or when Marlow retrieves Kurtz; dark-skinned individuals inhabit the entire region; and, of course, there is a certain philosophical darkness that permeates the work.
		For example, when the Manager suggests that the “scoundrel,” who is suspected of helping Kurtz procure his ivory, should be hanged as an example, his uncle agrees, noting that such actions are possible in the Congo, a region far from the “light” of civilized action.
		Of course, it is at Kurtz’s station where Marlow sees the greatest act of savagery, the placement of the decapitated heads of “rebels” atop poles.
	www.novelguide.com /heartofdarkness/themeanalysis.html (807 words)

	Koranteng's Toli: Heart of Darkness
		Heart of Darkness is a slender novel, it is short, sweet, muddled and, as befits the title, murky.
		Some characterize Heart of Darkness as a meditation on man's capacity for evil, that is, as a psychological jumping point for examining the eternal human story.
		Heart of Darkness is an amazing book, it has been critised for being racist, however if you read into the book and realise its true meaning you will see that conrad is critiscing and showing how hypocritical the way the people who were colonising africa were.
	koranteng.blogspot.com /2006/03/heart-of-darkness.html (3509 words)

	Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
		Heart of Darkness, perhaps his best known work, does not focus on admiralty or maritime law per se, but it does cast law as one of the central features of 19th century European imperialism.
		Kurtz himself is close to death, and Marlow feels as though he is "buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets." (pg.
		Marlow interprets Kurtz's final words as a summation of his life or perhaps of life in general, and the thought of the horror the dying Kurtz perceived sticks in Marlow's mind.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/jmlc/papke31.htm (4035 words)

	Heart Of Darkness: Summary
		The darkness is so deep where Marlow rests during the telling of his tale, that he cannot see his friends, and instead tells the story to the darkness itself.
		Kurtz was identical to Marlow, but has remained cut off from civilization for so long that he has been radically changed by the natives.
		Heart of Darkness warns us that the world is itself an evil thing, and the civilized population has refused to accept that fact.
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	Heart of Darkness
		Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad is a story that connects the audience to the narrator’s senses.
		Heart of Darkness is indicative of the evil and greed in humanity as personified by Kurtz and Marlow.
		In the Heart of Darkness, the Africans are perceived to be dispensable, not nearly as valuable as the ivory they are relied upon to collect for the white man. It is unfortunate that the propensity for this way of thinking is still very evident today.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/nature/conrad.htm (5049 words)

	HEART OF DARKNESS
		Kurtz was, he said he was a first-class agent; and seeing my disappointment at this information, he added slowly, laying down his pen, `He is a very remarkable person.' Further questions elicited from him that Mr.
		Kurtz was at present in charge of a trading-post, a very important one, in the true ivory-country, at `the very bottom of there.
		Kurtz was the best agent he had, an exceptional man, of the greatest importance to the Company; therefore I could understand his anxiety.
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	Heart Darkness essays - lighthod The Epiphany in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
		Heart Darkness essays - lighthod The Epiphany in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
		Marlow continues to grasp the essential nature of man's heart of darkness later on in the story when he is conversing with Kurtz in the woods.
		Kurtz himself also realized the heart of darkness within man and tried to warn Marlow not to become overwhelmed and conquered by that darkness as he was.
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	Amazon.ca: Heart of Darkness: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kurtz became what he hated the most- he became the soul of the jungle- because he had none of his own.
		It is a mistake to judge Kurtz by the standards of the city of the dead.
		Kurtz and his warriors sweeping across the jungle, taking heads and ivory as trophies, was as natural as lions running down gazelles....
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	Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
		Conrad wrote “Heart of Darkness” in 1902, when white culture was quite confident of its superiority, and there would have seemed nothing arrogant or bigoted about a white man’s intent to “redeem” heathen Africa from itself.
		Kurtz wanted to redeem the natives because he felt that he was in possession of the Truth, with a capital T. His preconceived notion was that the primitive Africans were somehow dark in soul as well as in skin, and they needed to be enlightened.
		Kurtz never does understand this, really; as he marvels at how easily the natives can be manipulated, he remains ignorant of the real meaning of their ways.
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	Study Guide: Heart of Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In The Heart of Darkness, Marlow, a seaman, tells of his adventure in Africa seeking a shadowy figure known as “Kurtz.” Kurtz is the agent for a colonial service dealing in ivory.
		Kurtz has taken an African mistress and has engaged in “horrifying” rituals with the natives who are nothing but his slaves.
		The conclusion of The Heart of Darkness is one of the most enigmatic and controversial in English fiction.
	www.engl.niu.edu /jschaeffer/110/sgehofd.html (582 words)

	Questions
		Q: The structure of The Heart of Darkness is that of a ‘frame tale’.
		Kurtz was not interested in this because it had no bearing on the productivity of the extraction of ivory.
		Although there are signs towards the end of the story that the Dark Continent may claim him as another victim, the sight of Kurtz is enough to make him pull back and he decides to return to Europe.
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	Heart of Darkness Summary & Essays - Joseph Conrad
		Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, now his most famous work, was first published in 1899 in serial form in London’s Blackwood’s Magazine, a popular journal of its day.
		Heart of Darkness is based on Conrad’s firsthand experience of the Congo region of West Africa.
		It is on one level about a voyage into the heart of the Belgian Congo, and on another about the journey into the soul of man. In 1902, Heart of Darkness was published in a separate volume along with two other stories by Conrad.
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	Point of View Manipulating Readers in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, deals with contentious issues of racism and the questionable validity of policies of colonisation employed by European nations during the nineteenth century.
		In Heart of Darkness it is the cannibals who are the more constrained and civilised, especially when juxta positioned against the “white, flabby” European pilgrims, who seem the more irrational and uncivilised in their response to situations.
		Heart of Darkness, in its portrayal of issues of racism and colonisation, utilises a unique narrative point of view in order to manipulate readers into specific understandings of the characters, their situations, conflicts in the text, and the issue at hand.
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	heart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Heart of Darkness functions as a lead in to the twentieth century for a number of reasons.
		If you use a searchable index of Heart of Darkness and look for the word "nigger" (both the singular and the plural) to discover every case in which the term is used you may be surprised.
		Heart of Darkness, White Lies and Joseph Conrad and the University Curriculum -- an excellent and thorough analysis of the novel by Karin Hansson at the University of Karlskrona.
	www.utm.edu /~lalexand/brnovel/Heart.htm (1952 words)

	The Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Review
		Kurtz's ambition is driven by his "fascination with the abomination" (20).
		Kurtz isolates himself inside the heart of Africa, and his acquisition of power causes his moral sympathies and emotions to dwindle.
		Kurtz is an evil man, yet he is said to be "remarkable" by several people in the story.
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	chapter 8
		Absence of color is absence of light, and in Heart of Darkness we hear the trick of using fl, dark, colorless words to render some of the missing shades--as with the women so dramatically absent from the narrative, for example.
		Kurtz's "duty," à la Hegel, is "consciousness of duty" as itself "the hypocrisy which wants its judging to be taken for an actual deed, and instead of proving its rectitude by actions, does so by uttering fine sentiments" (403).
		Kurtz, evidently, is now Marlow's direct reflection at the same time that Marlow is the object of Kurtz's cry.
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	Notes on Heart of Darkness
		Joseph Conrad's 1902 novel Heart of Darkness is about many things: seafaring, riverboating, trade and exploration, imperialism and colonialism, race relations, the attempt to find meaning in the universe while trying to get at the mysteries of the subconscious mind.
		The framing narrative of Heart of Darkness is presented by an unnamed, undefined speaker, who is one of a group of men, former sailors, now professionals, probably middle-aged, on the deck of a yacht at the mouth of the Thames River, London England.
		Kurtz has gone into circumstances which call into question how much judgement depends on recognizable contexts (does "civilization" rob people of survival skills?).
	faculty.arts.ubc.ca /gmbaxter/CONRAD.HTM (1065 words)

	Heart of Darkness
		The recurring theme of darkness (a symbol for the reality of the society) and fear perpetuate the action, and utimatly envelops the characters that struggle with this dilema such as Kurtz.
		His experiences there are what inspired Heart of Darkness (1902), and many people do not realize that he knew the Congo well, and actually spent some time of his life involved in the conflicts of the land.
		Kurtz is an important figure to the story, and this page utilizes film, links, and graphics to illustrate the area surrounding it.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/heartofdarkness.html (1632 words)

	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness (1902) exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism.
		In "Heart of darkness", is it the concept of Imperialism that corrupts Kurtz and the Pilgrims, or is it the Wilderness?
		To a large extent, the tempers and concerns of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness reflects the changing attitude of the English writers toward Afica in the modernist period
	www.online-literature.com /conrad/heart_of_darkness (630 words)

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