Karl

In Karl's essay he explores the symbolism of "darkness". What is the darkness? We see that both as we get further into the jungle in the Heart of Darkness we also get further into the sleeping unconscious and so, further into the darkness. This leads us into the hidden self Karl shows us and also into more and more of a huge gap between what we are now and what we used to be. This massive alienation poses an image of man where their are no secrets to be had, no wishes to be fufilled, and all the horrors imaginable. But the psyche must accept these conditions and his troubling sense as he can become more conscious of himself and his truths, his lies, his dreams, his horrors. The many symbols in Heart of Darkness suggest a plethora of meanings from sex to power to death. But it is through discovering the symbols through the darkness that we gain insight into the true light of this story and inevitable to the true evil.