Heart of Darkness (CRR)

Ronnie Green 1/23/13

Period 1 English

The Heart Of Darkness

Throughout life people either pose you as one of two this, good or bad. The Heart Of Darkness is a book based upon a corrupt general named Kurtz in his downfall. In the book Mr. Kurtz was looked upon as a good honorable man in the beginning ;However, Kurtz changed from the beginning of the book to the end. These facts will reveal the cruel man that Kurtz became throughout the book.

First and foremost Kurtz is originally Europe. Kurtz is significant in both his style and eloquence. He is also significant imposing and megalomaniac scheming. In the beginning of the book this quote was used to describe Kurtz.”He is a prodigy, “He is an emissary and pity, and science, and progress, and devil, what else.* we want,” (Page 30). The brickmaker describes Kurtz as if he were a genius. He also showed that Kurtz had good leadership and potential by explaining that Kurtz will be the General Manager of the entire project soon. Not only did Kurtz impress the brickmaker, but he impressed Marlow by the large amount of ivory that have been exported.

Throughout the rest of the book Kurtz began to show his true colors. “ He said he would shoot me unless I gave him the ivory and cleared out of the country…” This quote showed how Kurtz changed throughout the book because, Kurtz was being disloyal to people who was actually caring for him. Also this quote shows how Kurtz acted as a religious figure, because  people feared Kurtz and did whatever he asked.

Lastly this quote showed how Kurtz changed.”The Horror! The Horror!” This quote showed that Kurtz  was obviously a bad man. He lived his life in greed. He also inflicted pain and sorrow on others lives and probably saw with his eyes in his last moments that he was a bad person.

Overall Kurtz was a bad person posing as a good person. People are not always the same person as you first met them people change. Throughout the whole book these were the changes that Kurtz experienced.