It is difficult to find a deeper description of the 19th century colonialist ideal than the way it is illustrated in the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The story revolves around Marlowe, a steamship captain in the Belgian Congo, tasked with finding Kurtz, an ivory trader, who has strayed from the rest of the trading society and traveled to the most remote regions. depths of Africa. Joseph Conrad is not a native English speaker, his book has a very sophisticated and complex plot and text structure. The most interesting thing is not to illustrate the purpose of the book, it is the kind of message that the book is trying to convey, because there are many. An essential theme of Joseph Conrad's book is the critique of the psyche of colonialism and how its mistreatment is caused. of the African people, corrupts the human mind. How a human being moves towards the darker side, being responsible for horrible and degenerate actions. In order to make it more substantial and concrete, the author chooses to describe psychological change both in a spiritual (subjective) way and in a physical (objective) way. This is accomplished by setting the setting on the Congo River, so that as Marlowe travels up the river, he goes both deeper into the dark, unexplored regions of Africa and his own soul. With this illustration, Joseph Conrad dramatizes how the coexistence of the soul and the material world marks the mind and body of the human being. The river also symbolizes the path away from civilization and into a land that Marlowe believes is vestigial and wild. "To go up this river was like traveling to the first beginnings of the world, when vegetation was raging on the earth and the middle of paper ......, Marlowe meets Kurtz, simply in the form of a ghost or a myth People at different stations mention him in different contexts some simply like him for his service to the company, some unambiguously despise him for rising too quickly in the company, and some adore him. without a doubt. “I tell you,” he cried, “this man has broadened my mind” (p.50) “Those who despise Kurtz should be considered as if they were more versions. Kurtz's youth was sent to Congo because of his charismatic leadership and understanding of the power of the word, which led him to one of the most prestigious commercial stations and won the approval of managers in Europe He was later named as the biggest hate figure among commercial stations, because every other station manager is determined to be as successful as him...