In the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad one of the major themes is the perversity of the Congo. What is good and evil in the European world becomes distorted and hazy in the heart of Africa. To the outside world white is good and black is evil; it is as simple as that. This philosophy is embodied in Marlow's aunt, who believes that his job is to bring light into the land of …showed first 75 words of 1135 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1135 total…presence of the natives, yet rather was the suffering and the pain that the Europeans brought upon them. On the other hand, people that he meets that are white on the outside are filled with the "darkness of the heart." The opposition between light and dark, black and white, good and evil is not the same in the Congo as it is in Europe. Without society these forces become perverted and hard to distinguish between.