Heart Of Darkness By Joseph Conrad. What does Marlow discover on his journey up the Congo River?
try this website: http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/t… From what I remember,though, Marlow starts the book out believing in the noble purpose of Europe entering Africa. He sees the Africans as primitive and violent and believes that the Europeans are helping them by lifting them up out of their primitivism. But as he travels down the Congo, he comes to realize that there is darkness in everybody. that the Europeans are no more good then the Africans are bad. When he meets Kurtz he realizes that even someone who had as noble ideals as kurtz could be seduced by darkness. Kurtz starts out as a man who believes in noble ideals and degenerates into a monster.
