Heart Of Darkness: The Journey Into The Soul

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turns and being able to find one's inner-self is very
difficult and twisted. The snake represents some of the animal imagery in
the novel. Perhaps this is a sign that the jungle is something living and
not just an ordinary jungle.
Literature's imagery helps to show the main idea through a picture
painted in one's mind. Imagery is very insightful and in Conrad's novel
there is a lot of animal and hell imagery that branches together to form
the main theme of the novel, the journey in finding one's self; the soul.
The snake as mentioned before is an image of evil. In biblical times the
snake created the evil in the story of Adam and Eve. The lion is an image
that appears frequently. "He is crawling on all-fours,"Conrad 109 describes
Kurtz as being the ominous, morbid man he is. On another level, it deals
with how everyone has a little bit of lion in them, but one must overcome
this phenomenal and boundless force. This lets the reader relate
themselves to Kurtz and their own ...

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and suffering. This proves that the journey to the soul is not a
pleasant journey. Marlow "saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that
knew no restraint, no faith, no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself."
Conrad 113 Anyone who read Heart of Darkness can go back and take a look at
the character Kurtz and relate themselves to a moment in their life that
they had fallen into the binding grip of the darkness.
The mood of a story reflects the way the author makes the reader
feel. In Heart of Darkness the reader acknowledges three main moods while
reading. These moods can be associated with the journey to the soul. The
first mood that the reader should acknowledge is the ...

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