Heart of Darkness - Reflection Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a novel which deals with many aspects of civilised society and the effect that other worlds have upon civilised people. Conrad particularly focus's on the changes that occur to people when they travel into the depths of Africa which he aptly refers to as the Heart of Darkness. At this stage of the text Conrad, through the character of Marlow, is explaining to …
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…Yet soon after he once again changes back to hight-lighting Kurtz's bad aspects. At one stage even saying that Kurtz's God like status enabled him to participate in heathen practices such as orgies. Marlow has now also changed the way he addresses Kurtz from using his name to now calling him just it. At this stage of the text we are seeing Marlow's hero like qualities and also Kurtz's demise into an anti hero figure.