Dorall, author of “Conrad and Coppola: Different Centres of Darkness,” explains Kurtz’s loss of his identity. Kurtz turned into a thief, murderer, raider, persecutor, and to climax all of his other shady practices, he allows himself to be worshipped as a god. Once he entered within his “heart of darkness” he was shielded from the ight. Kurtz being cut off from civilization reveals his dark side. The jungle closes’ round” (Labrasca 290). “Kurtz issues the feeble cry, ‘The horror! The horror! ‘ and the man of vision, of poetry, the ’emissary of pity, and science, and progress’ is gone. yet, he was also a “hollow man,” a man without basic integrity or any sense of social responsibility. He was considered to be a “universal genius”: he was an orator, writer, poet, musician, artist, politician, ivory producer, and chief agent of the ivory company’s Inner Station. He thought that each ivory station should stand like a beacon light, offering a better way of life to the natives. Kurtz comes to the Congo with noble intentions. The horror magnifies Kurtz not being able to restrain himself, the colonizers’ greed, and Europe’s darkness. However, Kurtz’s last words “The horror! The horror! ” refer, to me, to magnify only three major aspects. The destruction set upon the Congo by Europeans led to the cry of Kurtz’s last words, “The horror! The horror! ” The horror in Heart of Darkness has been critiqued to represent different aspects of situations in the book.

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