Shedding Light through the Fog: Ignorance, Truth, and the Imagery of Light and Darkness in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

Abstract

From the outset, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a novel in which the imagery of light and darkness plays quite an important role. The ideas conveyed through these concepts, however, are not at all one-dimensional or straightforward, which is clear when looking at the many interpretations that light and darkness give place to within the narrative itself.