Heart of Darkness
Written by Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness“ is one of the most important novels ever published.
It tells the story of Charles Marlow, who travels to central Africa, trying to discover the world and to see new parts of the earth.
But in the jungle he doesn’t find what he has expected to find.
He sees an ivory company typical for colonialism, with hundreds of black slave workers, tortured and exploited.
And in the middle of all the cruelty there is the mysterious “Mr. Kurtz”, a first class agent of the ivory company on the one hand, but an insane, brutal person on the other hand.
He has made himself the boss of the local tribes and controls with his violence the ivory business in the whole region and god only knows what else.
Sooner or later the journey to the heart of the jungle becomes a journey to the darkness of human nature.
“Heart of Darkness” is definitely a piece of high literature and not easy to read, but the content is interesting and it will help to improve your English.
Malte Braitmaier., 18
Written by Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness“ is one of the most important novels ever published.
It tells the story of Charles Marlow, who travels to central Africa, trying to discover the world and to see new parts of the earth.
But in the jungle he doesn’t find what he has expected to find.
He sees an ivory company typical for colonialism, with hundreds of black slave workers, tortured and exploited.
And in the middle of all the cruelty there is the mysterious “Mr. Kurtz”, a first class agent of the ivory company on the one hand, but an insane, brutal person on the other hand.
He has made himself the boss of the local tribes and controls with his violence the ivory business in the whole region and god only knows what else.
Sooner or later the journey to the heart of the jungle becomes a journey to the darkness of human nature.
“Heart of Darkness” is definitely a piece of high literature and not easy to read, but the content is interesting and it will help to improve your English.
Malte Braitmaier., 18
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