Heart of Darkness - How Do We Encounter Ourselves in the Modern Society

While I was filling the petty story Heart of repulsiveness, by Joseph Conrad, I recalled an essay I guide back in Korea, titled Why Do We Read Novels. The writer of the essay states that the most common reason why we, as battalion, read novels is that it makes us ask ourselves how the justice or injustice of the real innovation relates to that of the authors words. In this way, the short story Heart of Darkness portrays the experiences and thoughts of Conrad through the tale of two important characters, Marlow and Mr. Kurtz. His work forces the reader to chew over questions of the morality, humanity, and insanity which takes place in our human lives. The story is a render of Marlows journey to concourse Mr. Kurtz, a morally corrupted cosmos who is a symbolic representation of the darkness and wilderness of the African jungle. It is inevitable to pay close attention to the process of Marlows journey and meeting with Mr. Kurtz in order to understand the meaning of what he le arned from discovering himself and how this relates to our young world. Unlike other white men who went into the Congo River for unmoral or button-down reasons, such as to Christianize the natives or to get rich by exploiting all the ivories in the jungle, Marlow does not feel right almost how the imperialistic European countries exploit of the rest of the world. This is shown very clearly when Marlow says This devoted annulus called itself the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, and I believe they were sworn to secrecy. Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage, there was not an atom of fore-sight or of honorable intention in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem conscious ... ... jungles of the Congo or on the civilized streets of London.I feel powerfully that one of the reasons why Conrad wrote this novella is to encourage us to ask ourselves about how we encounter ours elves in the contemporary society. He must have mat up that people during his time indulged in imperialism, which impedeed them from reflecting on themselves. Consequently, there are many an(prenominal) evidences in the text that show his cynical view of imperialism. For example, Marlow describes the French armys firing into a continent as a halting screech (P.275), implying the authors pessimistic view towards imperialism. In this way, the people in the modern society indulge in modern things that prevent us from reflecting on ourselves, such as mass media, the internet, etc. Conrad at a time said Facing it, always facing it, thats the way to get through. exhibit it. Are we facing ourselves?