Juxtaposition In Heart Of Darkness

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a novella that tells the story about a group of young man that sail up Congo River in search of a man named Kurtz. As they head up the river they encounter many cruel acts such as ambushes, attacks with fire arrows, and a mass killing where Kurtz has been staying. Kurtz is said to be a man with great abilities but is believed to have gone mad. When Marlow has to wait to head up river his curiosity about Kurtz grows. The men set off up the Congo on a steam boat with Marlow as the captain. Conrad uses many literary works to help convey what the men went through, some of the one he used was irony, juxtaposition, symbolism. Marlow gets a taste of the brutality that awaits him when he arrives at the company

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