rness of the jungle like that of a child who is absorbed by the arms and love of its own mother.The personification of the wilderness in Heart of Darkness is the means by which pleasure and security is transferred to an inanimate object [landscape/jungle] in the same sense that the landscape is feminized. The rhetorical attribute is that the subject of women themselves is denied in the text, so that women's identity as an embodiment of both darkness and illusion is established in the way they are spoken about but are, themselves, not allocated as a true component or actual human embodiment of the narrative. The women in the text are never given any voice or name and they are treated only as speechless objects that happen to be part of the overall jungle. Unlike the men in Joseph Conrad's story, the women are set apart from the rest of the story and no matter how important the y actually were to the society of the jungle, they were only spoken of as inanimate objects that happened to have the power to walk across the land. In the end, it is by the hands and powers of these unspoken women who bring the downfall of Kurtz and his empowerment over the African jungle. It is the "horror" of truth and reality that finally tears him down, the same truth that was withheld from the women of the story in every possible way. ...
