of the heart of darkness; the reader becomes accustomed to the slavery, to the senseless murder, and to the greed. Until that last moment, the moment Kurtz recognizes his and the Europeans fault, and our own. Kurtz lost in the end, and unleashed what lay beneath the surface of our so-called humanity; but, Conrad achieves his goal of demonstrating that humans are not so far removed from what their society and civilization condemn. The true heart of darkness is not the Congo, the natives, Africa, or even Kurtz, himself; the heart of darkness is not a place, but a part of you and me, a part of all of us, which we all must keep in check or, in the end, lose or humanity....
