I am not sure how Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is related to
gaining redemption, accession spiritual healing and eangaing in
self-discovery...Hope to have some evidence from the book..thank you
very much...

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Request for Question Clarification by kriswrite-ga on 10 Dec 2004 13:44 PST

Would links to websites that discuss redemption as a theme in "Heart
of Darkness" answer your question?

Kriswrite

I studied heart of darkness in college and I don't remember hearing
anything about redepmtion or healing in class or got that out of
reading the book.  I think that self discovery is more relavent to the
story as Kurtz 'goes native' and likes it so much that he excels at
his job.  Because he rejects society, his managers want him retrieved.
 The narrator (I forget the guy's name) sees a world of complete
insanity and chaos, but it's the people from his society that are this
way, not the local Africans.  At the end of the book, he's pretty
cynical as he sees society as a bit of a facade when people are at the
very core, violent and animalistic.  Great book, well written.  If you
want to learn more about it from another perspective, watch Apocalyspe
Now, which was based off Heart of Darkness.