Heart Of Darkness: The Symbol Of Ivory
Beginning of paper
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 ....
Middle of paper
.... “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 th ....
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