Part 1 of Essay
In the classic novel , Joseph Conrad takes us on a journey into the soul of man. When the character of Marlow travels into the jungle of Africa to find Kurtz, he realizes that he is in a place where the rules of society no longer constrain human nature, and the frightening truths about human beings can be observed first h ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... within itself, and....it had gone mad" (p.150). Marlow observes how Kurtz struggles with himself, and the horrors of the wilderness that he had given in to. When Marlow arrives at Kurtz's station, he finds that Kurtz participates in horrible ceremonies, like one in which he beheaded natives and placed their heads on fence posts as symbols. Marlow believes that the wilderness "whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solit ....