The Mystery of Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness :: Heart of Darkness Essays

The Mystery of Kurtz in Conrads Heart of Darkness many a(prenominal) works of literature not readily identified with the secret or detective story genre nonetheless involve the investigation of a mystery. sometimes finding out the answer of the mystery can illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole. This is present in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness. The mystery in this novella is about a character named Kurtz.Kurtz was an English man who traveled to the Congo in search of excitement, money and experience. To many people back down home, he was known to be a loving intelligent young man. In Congo he was also known as being very intelligent, but also as being insane. The question is what happened to Kurtz how and why he let his self go insane. In a way you can severalise that he found the heart of his darkness, embraced it and could not escape it.In dealing with Kurtz many questions became visible for an example towards the end of the book what did he mean by the horror, the ho rror was he referring to what he witnessed and experienced while he was in command of his ivory station or was he talking about the elegance of Europe and how he did not wish to return? Perhaps he saw Europe as being his darkness and the Congo being his fire up or vice versa. When reading each page, a sort of investigation begins in trying to figure out how Kurtz became insane. However, that investigation was not fully unlikable because in the end no one knew what had happened to him. In a way his character presented the idea that perhaps the darkness, his darkness was his own and was all along in him waiting to come out. Because there were other men living and working in the Congo who had not become insane as he did, much(prenominal) as the Russian trader or the ivory companys accountant.