Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, a sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, supposed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. ... The word darkness is used numerous times in this novel. ... Darkness is the inability to see. Fog is a sort of consequence to darkness. ... The representative Victorians aboard the Nellie need to be told about the threat of the darkness, the threat to progress and enlightenment, because for the most part the Victorian world had no acknowledged of that threat.