Complete 5 page APA formatted essay: Mans inner darkness the heart of darkness.This essay discusses that in the name of progress, the white men had sunk to a level of oppression and ill treatment of t

Complete 5 page APA formatted essay: Mans inner darkness the heart of darkness.

This essay discusses that in the name of progress, the white men had sunk to a level of oppression and ill treatment of the natives that was anything but civilized and was motivated purely by selfish greed. Kurtz is an example of the extreme depths of the darkness into which man can sink. Marlow tries to read the meaning of Kurtz’ dying words. He feels that Kurtz’s words were the expression of some sort of belief” and that “he had summed up – he had judged”. While Marlow started out on his journey with a great admiration for Kurtz, yet at the end when he meets the unnamed woman to whom Kurtz was engaged and to whom the author refers to as “the intended”, he is unable to be completely truthful to her about the Kurtz that he had met in the jungle and the depths of darkness into which he had sunk. In fact, Marlow acknowledges that telling the “intended” the truth about Kurtz “would have been too dark – too dark altogether.”But then he realizes that this eventuality is more applicable if he had told the truth.Therefore, while Kurtz’s humanity had been almost fully obliterating in the darkness of the jungle, Marlow is able to draw back when he sees the horrors that have resulted from Kurtz’s transformation in the jungle. Although he set out into the dark jungle with the same fears of its oppressive weight as Kurtz had, he did not sink into it to the level that Kurtz did by allowing the darkness of the jungle to metaphorically take a grip of his inner humanity as well and submerge it in darkness.