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A trader of ivory in Africa and commander of a trading post, he monopolises his position as a demigod among native Africans. 0000008848 00000 n Marlow is a riverboat captain at the Company (at least, he becomes one, as the book starts), which is a Belgian trade company in the Congo. We’d Like to invite you to download our free 12 min app, for more amazing summaries and audiobooks. �,B?t���,�'د�*�~��� ���VJ�{A���w�e0W������7faN���H��� >d��O� ׇjs The horror! 0000002369 00000 n By the time Marlow, the protagonist, sees Kurtz, he is ill with jungle fever and almost dead. 0000002983 00000 n endstream endobj 30 0 obj<> endobj 31 0 obj<> endobj 32 0 obj<>stream 0000000016 00000 n

The dense jungle is everywhere, and so is the profound silence, which makes everyone feel at the edge of their seats. �-��1!o��7!�� '� Boost your life and career with the best book summaries. After some time, they arrive at the Inner Station, where Kurtz is.

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0000001036 00000 n Like Kurtz, Caesar is an educated, charismatic figure who is worshipped as a god by his underlings; in Caesar's case, his followers believe him to be the reincarnation of Mars, the Roman god of war. Learn more and more, in the speed that the world demands. endstream endobj 20 0 obj<> endobj 21 0 obj<> endobj 22 0 obj<> endobj 23 0 obj<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/ExtGState<>>> endobj 24 0 obj<> endobj 25 0 obj<> endobj 26 0 obj<> endobj 27 0 obj<> endobj 28 0 obj<> endobj 29 0 obj<>stream %%EOF But here's the irony: we're not sure whether Kurtz orders the attack or whether the native Africans do it on their own (we get conflicting stories from the harlequin). 0000001356 00000 n 0000064040 00000 n Meanwhile, Kurtz’s health is getting worse. The video game Spec Ops: The Line (2012), another modernized loose adaptation of Heart of Darkness (set in a ruined Dubai), has a similar Kurtz figure named Colonel John Konrad. Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed[5][6] Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now (1979) centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando), based on Conrad's character, who has gone rogue far up a river, deep in the Southeast Asian jungle. Britannica Quiz Getting Into Character 0000120347 00000 n
Kurtz is a central fictional character in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness. As a result, his name is known throughout the region. %PDF-1.4 %���� Among these documents is also a pamphlet about exterminating “the brutes” by civilizing the savages. <<3760225EDE8E8B4A88003E435400745D>]>> The manager of Central Station seems to fear him as well since he sees him as a threat that could endanger his position. Conrad also expressed admiration of Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Ocean writings, in particular, the stories "The Beach of Falesá" and The Ebb-Tide, as well as the non-fiction account of Tembinok' of the Gilbert Islands that appeared in In the South Seas. During this time, he learns more about a legendary-like figure, Kurtz, that everyone fears and talks about. 0 0000120118 00000 n 0000120813 00000 n Marlow swears that he will keep it a secret.

0000113116 00000 n All three texts contain megalomaniacs who manipulate their circumstances and remote settings to assert power over others. I first got introduced to “Heart of Darkness” in school. That night, Kurtz disappears for a moment, but Marlow notices and goes out to search for him. A personal acquaintance of Conrad's, Georges Antoine Klein, may also have been a real-life basis for the character. As the fog lifts, they are attacked by natives, who fire at them from the forest, so they cannot be seen. That way, they might return where they came from, and he might be left to accomplish all of his plans. startxref The Russian speaks about her, revealing that she got involved with Kurtz as his mistress, and influenced his way of thinking, causing trouble. 0000007280 00000 n Kurtz is also the author of a pamphlet regarding the civilization of the natives. The presence of his admirer, the Russian "Harlequin", and what he reveals about Kurtz in his adulatory descriptions of him raises questions about Kurtz's actual beliefs and the sincerity of his progressive views.