Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness speaks of the moral terror and evil that besets the emissary of imperialism as he sets deeper into the Congo. Marlow the protagonist finally finds Mr. Kurtz. While on his steam ship bringing Kurtz out of the jungle Marlow describes an overpowering emotion that comes upon him, what makes the emotion so overpowering is “the moral shock I received, as if something altogether monstrous, intolerable to thought, and odious to the soul had been thrust upon me” (Conrad 146-147). Here Marlow inadvertently states that Kurtz’s evil can tangibly be felt. This model imperialist agent has a cloud of evil that surrounds him and all those around him feel it. This evil is the heart of darkness.
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