Heart of Darkness

"The horror, the horror." (183) Conrad uses this quote to symbolize a couple of different things. It shows that Kurtz may have re...

"Curious this feeling that came over me that such details would be more intolerable than those heads drying on the stakes under Mr. Ku...

"The manager stood by the wheel murmuring confidentially about the necessity of getting well away down the river before the dark events...

"'My Intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my----' everything belonged to him." (137) Up to the time of Marlow and hi...

"One of my hungry and forbearing friends was sounding in the bows just below me." (129) In Heart of Darkness Conrad refers to Mar...

"Morituri te salutant." (76) This latin phrase can be translated into: "those who are about to die salute you". Conrad h...

"It's queer how out of touch with truth women are." (78) Heart of Darkness is a story that is made up of men. However, althou...