Heart Of Darkness : The Latest Version (A Novel)

Heart Of Darkness

The Latest Version (A Novel)

You'll learn about a narrative in this book concerning Marlow lying about the murderous fiancee's lover Kurtz's last remarks. He tells her what she wants to hear, as shown by her sobbing questions, out of fear of undermining her belief in Kurtz's devotion to her. I analyze elements of the absolutist and relativist viewpoints about truth and lies in this context. I also address whether telling the truth at all times is necessary or if, as I conclude, telling a lie out of love and concern for other people's emotions may be considered a loving act in that circumstance, despite the moral ambiguity.

• A Belgian commercial corporation offered Charles Marlow, an Englishman, a job abroad as a ferry boat captain in Africa.
• The big and significant Congo River originates in the Congo Free State, which at the time was a private province of Belgian King Leopold II. Conrad does not mention the name of the river, although it was at the time. Transporting ivory downriver is the job of Marlow.

• His more urgent task is to cover up Kurtz's return to society, another ivory merchant. All around the area, Kurtz is well-known.
• A frame narrative or story inside a story, this symbolic tale is. The story follows Marlow as he tells a group of men on board a ship that is docked in the Thames River about his experience in the Congo from sunset till late at night.

The fictional narrative-within-a-narrative parallels the mood of the novel as time passes and the sky becomes darker. Wikipedia