Thematic Analysis of Heart of Darkness

Abstract

Joseph Conrad expresses marvelously the rich flavor and the hidden meaning of events. Tocommunicate the reality he has seen and experienced, to saute with a mystical devotion the ideaof fidelity, to show the naked, lonely, and majestic human spirit in its capacity for striving andsuffering – this was Conrad’s achievement as a novelist. All of this and much more stands truefor Conrad’s masterpiece Heart of Darkness. It is a complex novel and a plethora of themes runthrough it .It is story of a character named Marlow who voyages to the mysterious DarkContinent to take the enigmatic figure Kurtz back to the civilization. However through hisjourney a number of themes like the indictment of imperialism, self -restraint, the predominanceof evil, solitude get unfolded. Marlow converts this anthropological night journey into aprofound symbolical one.