The Heart of Darkness explores the journey of Charlie Marlow, a British seaman, who ventures into the depths of Africa as an agent working for a Belgian company involved in trading ivory. Through his journey Marlow experiences the brutality, insanity and oppression that arises between the civilized colonizers and the African natives. He recounts his journey to a ship of seamen by taking them back into the past through his narrative …show more content…
The explicit analysis of the title relates the setting to the evil that lies within the jungle of Africa, in terms of the ‘evil’ and misunderstood natives. It does so by describing the hostile and barbaric wilderness in the depths of the African jungle supported by images of minimal lighting, fogs, and heavy nature coverage. The implicit meaning however suggests that the title does not refer to the environment, but the evil present within the subconscious of an individual provoked by the setting to