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Review of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The main characters in the book are Marlow a young man who decides that it would be exiting to travel into Africa hunting ivory and does so by taking the place of a dead steamboat captain. Kurtz a famous man among the ivory seekers who has lived and hunted on the continent for a while and has exploited the savages becoming a little crazy. The Russian fool a man who is known by his clothes with many colorful patches making him look like a clown and he works with Kurtz who proves to be poor company for him. Finally the Intended she is Kurtz's bride to be who at the end of the book still thinks that Kurtz was the great man that she remembered him to be and Marlow doesn't have the heart to tell her otherwise.
Marlow sits at the Thames River in the evening with several other people and begins telling the story about how he entered into the "Dark Continent" out of nowhere. No one wants to listen but he continues telling the story......

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