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It has been said that although Conrad may not have been “the greatest novelist, he was certainly the greatest artist every to write a novel”. I feel that this is an apt description of Conrad’s writing style in Heart of Darknes ....

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... is the way darkness and light can be used to represent two opposite emotions or concepts. Light vs. dark can, for example, represent good vs. evil, the civilized vs. the uncivilized, illusion vs. reality or assumption vs. fact. We know from the start of the novella that the darkness that Conrad refers to is symbolic, because, while the silent narrator aboard The Nellie comments on the many lights emanating from the shore, the lighthouse, the other boats and the setting sun, Marlowe comments that they themselves are in “one of the dark places of the earth”. Therefore we know that Marlowe has his own opinion and explanation ...