Part one of term paper
The Last Disciple: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness When a man’s life is the sea he has much time to think about that life and who he really is or might be. In Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad introduces readers to two such men who are at different stages of their quest to find out who they are. The two men, Marlow and Kurtz, p ...

Part two of term paper
... and evil man. Despite all of this Marlow maintains that “Kurtz was a remarkable man” (1480) and remains “loyal to Kurtz at the last” (1481). Marlow says this of Kurtz because he, like Kurtz, entered the Congo with what he believed to be good intentions, and even though he may see that Kurtz is doing the wrong thing he admirers him because in the end Kurtz has a revelation before his death in which he discovers himself and how horrible the duplicity of man can be. As Marlow ...