MY BOOK REPORT ABOUT "HEART OF DARKNESS"
This book is written by Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (1857-1924). He is an English writer of Polish origin, a native of Ukraine. I usually became interested in adventure life of protagonists. What does it mean? If you look at hero of book Marlow that seems like writer’s alter ego, you also can see that this novel is structured as a journey of discovery, both externally in the jungle, and internally in Marlow's own mind. The deeper he penetrates into the heart of the jungle, the deeper he delves within himself. Another reason, I often appeal to human life on the earth in general and the important values. I see that the novel explores the place of the individual in an increasingly complex society, but Conrad's presentation specifically focuses on the moral dilemma of man in a godless world. After that, I chose the book because there the truth is avoided at all costs. I saw with this in the Heart of Darkness some problems for our society that must be resolved in the future. In the novel, the truth is avoided at all costs. For example, Kurtz is an evil man, but everyone tries to pretend that he is a much better person. People hide the truth about the real man that Kurtz is. This is three reasons why I took Konrad’s novel from the class.
Next, at the beginning of his book, Conrad through Marlow establishes his thoughts on colonialism. He says that conquerors only use brute force, because it arises by accident from another's weakness. Marlow compares his subsequent tale of colonialism with that of the Roman colonization of Northern Europe and the fascination associated with such an endeavor. Neverthless, Marlow challenges this viewpoint by painting a heinous picture of the horrors of colonialist ventures as we delve deeper into the recesses of the novel. Also, author explores that the world is like without meaning or purpose. Through Marlow, Conrad introduces a story for civilization, for those on board the Nellie that are unaware for their own meaninglessness. The voyage through the African Congo depicts the absurdity of man's existence and human ideals disintegrate in the immensity of the Jungle atmosphere. In addition, in this novel, the main character is faced with a decision. He had the option to either tell the woman the actual final words of her loved one, or to make up new ones which she would find soothing. Marlow choose the the latter of the two, but it was almost as though he was unable to tell her the truth. He claimed that the truth was much too dark, but that explanation could mean anything. Is there too interested event when on the trip upriver Marlow enlists a crew of about thirty cannibals to do the boat's manual labor. In contrast to the idiotic pilgrims, Conrad portrays the cannibals with dignity. They grow increasingly hungry on board, esp. after the pilgrims throw their provision of stinking hippo meat overboard and the manager refuses to stop to trading for food on shore. We can see that Marlow tries to imagine why they don't eat him and the pilgrim. Usually the darkness of the title is the major theme of the book. The meaning of that darkness is never clearly defined.
In short, Heart of Darkness people should be interested because this book teaches us that the use of "darkness" is in the book's title and in throughout the story and takes on a number of meanings that are not easily understood until the story progresses. When you read the story you realize that the meaning of "darkness" is not something that is constant but changes depending on the context it used. It’s important to know, too. Also, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness presents us with a fictional account of inhumane acts in Africa illustrating that racism and its outgrowths are the most cruel examples of man's inhumanity to man. We’ll understand those problems more. Then we find there some moral lesson that the darkness of man's heart provokes fear and frustration. Without any law and order people may turn into savages. The story usually appeal to adults because we see different difficult for understanding symbols, things like matters with colonialism or imperialism. Josef Konrad’s book shows imperialism in more of a physical perspective, psychological in the same time, etc. The book may be interested for politicians and historians.