6/28/2023 0 Comments Sparknotes heart of darkness![]() ![]() His Aunt, who has contacts in a Continental Trading Company, easily gets him a job on the river though. After many trips to India and China, he tries to find a job on the Congo river but has no luck. He traveled to many of them, but one region transformed into a dark space, the heart of Africa. As he grew older, some of those blank spaces were filled. He then starts telling the story of his time as a captain on a riverboat on the Congo river.Įver since he had been a young boy, Marlow had been fascinated by maps and the blank spaces on them. He points out that the difference between the Romans and the present situation is that the Romans just wanted to conquer whereas modern-day Englishmen want to colonize, but also says that conquest is always ugly, whatever the form. Marlow interrupts with the observation that England used to be a dark place as well before the Romans conquered it. The old friends sit in silence till the narrator starts speaking about the grand history of the river Thames, a place from where thousands of adventures to dark places had started their journeys. ![]()
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