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Conrad's Intent In Heart Of Darkness

Distilling the Darkness

In analysis of Heart of Darkness, much is made of Conrad's intentions in telling his
tale. People search for a moral lesson, a strict social commentary, an absolution for the
evil of the dark jungle. It isn't there, and that's not the point.
In works of philosophy (like The Republic), or works of political theory (like
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific), or works of natural science (like The Origin of
Species), this sifting of important and clear ideas from the mess and confusion of
experience is what writers like Plato, Darwin, or Engels are doing. They experience the
world in all its messy confusion, and then they attempt to abstract from the mess, by
careful selection, a system of ordering principles which other people can comprehend and
make use of. In more figurative words, they are trying to shed the light of intelligence
upon the darkness of experience.
As, primarily, students and teachers, we naturally look for the conveyance of such......


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