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How Does Heart Of Darkness Change Throughout The Novel

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In this novel, Joseph Conrad is portraying the events that are occurring in the Congo as well as his experiences. The first time Marlow is off the boat he witnesses a chain gang heading into the forest to retrieve ivory for the company. Rather than intervening into the situation, Marlow only stands to the side and turns his head the other way so that he wouldn't have to look at the demeaning nature of the company. “What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?” (Goudreau). This quote from Goudreau states that was is the point in these things if we decide to put them aside whenever we don't want them. In Conrad's novel, literary elements such as setting, characterization, and symbolism
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