Timed write Heart of Darkness

In the Heart of darkness Marlow is faced with the mystery of mankind vs nature. He wants to explore and see the inner working of the new mysterious place he wants to understand how trade works there. He ends up having his aunt get him a job as a steam boat captain where he would bring supplies to and from the different stations of ivory collectors around the continent. While Marlow is doing his job , he sees a lot of the unjust things that are going on. He acknowledges that the way the darker skinned humans are being treated is wrong and he has to look away when he sees it because it makes him physically sick. He doesn’t understand why they deserve to be treated that way, he mentions how these “savages” are now criminals because they have broken laws they didn’t even know existed. Marlow starts to describe the place as “darkness” and that “this must be what hell is like”. In the end of the book Marlow and a few other people go to see/rescue a man named Mr. Kurtz. Mr. Kurtz is well known around there for collecting large amounts of ivory, and having inspirational thoughts. But when they finally get to him he is very sick and delusional, he had a strange bond with the natives and was using them to keep his “rescue party” away. When Marlow was able to be with Mr. Kurtz he described what was happening to him as “his soul was mad being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and by Heavens! I tell you it had gone mad!” I believe that how he saw Mr. Kurtz in the end is how he truly confronted the mystery of mankind vs nature. Mankind is to destructive when left to its own devises. When there is no more restraint mankind becomes swallowed up in the darkness and goes mad trying to figure out how to go back. Marlow’s journey through Africa illuminates the meaning of Joseph Conrad’s work as a whole by guiding the reader to the ultimate conclusion that Mankind left on its own is darkness.