In Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad Often Uses Vague,“muted” Descriptions, Leavin

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Term Paper Title	In Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad Often Uses Vague,“muted” Descriptions, Leavin
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In Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad often uses vague,“muted” descriptions, leaving a melange of possible meanings in the reader’s lap. One exception to this trend is Conrad’s symbolic use of ivory. Within the frame of the story,  his references to ivory can obviously be seen as a representation of the white man’s greed. Towards the end of the book ivory comes to symbolize the oozing evil that drips from the heart of darkness.
     It isn’t long before Conrad makes a commentary on the greed of the whites. By the thirty-seventh page via Marlow associates them with a “false religion.” He says that the men at the Central Station are, “like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence. Pilgrims are usually people who travel to a holy place, so why the choice of words? Conrad further explains in the following lines when he says, “The word ‘ivory’ rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it.” In their rapacity the “pilgrims” have placed ivory as their God, a realization that has greater meaning towards the end of the book.
     The significance of ivory begins to move away from avarice and takes on a purely evil connotation as Marlow approaches those hearts of darkness: the Inner Station and Kurtz. Kurtz’s relationship with ivory seems to have been reiterated by every company member through the course of the story. Of course Kurtz “harvested” more ivory than all the other stations combined, and therefore it almost seems appropriate that Conrad would use exte...

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