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 | Heart of Darkness Study Guide for the book by Joseph Conrad
Grade Level: 9-12
Setting: Colonial Congo, 1890
British Literature World Literature Historical Literature
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"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
who can know it?"
~Jeremiah 17:9 KJV
Charles Marlow is a young man desiring adventure in exotic lands. With the help of an influential aunt, Marlow is assigned to be captain of a Belgian trading company's steamer in the Congo Free State (modern-day Zaire) of Africa. As he prepares to journey up the Congo River to the company's inner station, he hears tales about the station's manager, Mr. Kurtz, an ivory trader who has amazing power over the natives of the region. Determined to meet this man, Marlow begins his journey. Instead of excitement and glamour, Marlow finds horror, and far up river, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz.