Now that I’ve finished the book and thought about it, I think that theme-wise, throughout Heart Of Darkness, the insincerity and deceit of imperialism played a vast role. But the theme that I found more appealing was the result of imperialism- lunacy and madness. It threw whatever was connected with it into a whirlwind. In the story, Africa was responsible for mental disintegration, for example. Madness gets a reaction from the reader, because it’s usually ironic in some fashion and gains the reader’s compassion (in the way that Kurtz was mad, and Marlow ended up seeing through it, or maybe not even seeing it at all. The company that he worked for was also a bit mad for thinking that they were “helping” natives, et cetera), and it is used to alienate a character and create more individual characteristics.What other themes does everyone else think were important?
posted by Devon V
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