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...Darkness is considered to be one of the most powerful, and also most highly explicated, novels. It is a story of the dark side of humanity, searching for one’s identity, struggling with realities in the world, racial inequality, oppression, greed, and many other topics. In one respect Conrad’s novel offers perspectives of duality in relationship to the numerous possible themes in the novel. The following paper examines the duality of human nature in Heart of Darkness.

Heart of Darkness: Duality
The main character of Marlow, in Heart of Darkness, is a man who presumes to have higher ideals than the man he is pursuing, Kurtz. He is, in many waysredibly representative of the colonial attitude of the English, and also very representative of the social and spiritual consciousness of the English people. At the time this novel was written the western people were fascinated with the notion of evolution and the dark...