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Human Nature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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different in the story. Instead of being able to simply concentrate on the account of the events, the story, the reader has to pay attention to how re-telling the  story has an impact on Marlow. Then, it is also important to consider Marlows relationships with the other characters of the story, as well as his own internal issues. Supposedly,  criticism of The Heart of Darkness soon after it was published annoyed Conrad because he had intended the story to be seen as being about Kurtz and critical reviews were  generally focused on Marlow. This would suggest that even Conrad, as the author, understood that the story was taking place on a variety of levels and perhaps in a  variety of shades of darkness. Not only are there the human conflicts and measures of darkness but there are also social implications presented in terms of the conflict that takes  place between what is lawful and what is against the law (morally, logically, and legally), self-restraint compared to personal and uncontrolled self-indulgence and at the core of all that, the  conflict between order and chaos. The end result is one in which the reader comes away from the book thinking that Conrads own view of human nature was that it  was filled with darkness at virtually every level. Layers Upon Layers Multi-layered storytelling was one of Conrads best writing talents. As Conrad tells the story of Marlow, who is in  the process of telling a group of men about a voyage into Africa as captain of a steamboat sent to haul ivory downriver from the interior to the coast, the  reader understands that Marlow is also telling a story of himself and his observations of the death of a once-idealistic trader named Kurtz. Marlow is not telling the story to