Introduction
"The Heart of Darkness" written by Joseph Conrad was a born on 3 December –
1857 or died on 3 August 1924. ""Heart of Darkness"" 1899 is a novel by
British novelist Joseph Conrad. He was considered an early odernist, though
his works still contain elements of nineteenth-century realism. Marlow is a narrator of the main story and
he is supremely important in the novel which deals with his experiences in the Congo. Heart of
Darkness is a compact masterpiece.
Joseph conrad 
It would be unsounded criticism to say that
this novel is badly constructed or that it is structurally defection. Except
for the faulty technique of narration which Conrad has employed here, and which
he has employed in certain other novels of his also, more into theadventure.
Furthermore, the story tends to change more and more from a physical
exploration to a moral and mental exploration. The search for the heart of
darkness becomes a search into the man's heart represented by Marlow's search
for Mr.Kurtz. With ill Europe in his heredity, had gone to Africa with the
highest motives for he enlighten of the ignorant and backward natives, but he
had ended here as one of the dark deities of the very people whom he had wanted
to civilized. The power of the story, says a critic from its method of
narration.
Marlow
The method of
narration in "Heart of
Darkness" comes as big disappointment. The novelis a fascinating
one. It is a spell-binding novel. The story, which it unfolds, exercises a
magic effect upon us. The history grips our minds with its intensely dramatic
situations and with its stirring and exciting events. The story has suspense;
it has mystery and has depth and profundity too. What upset us is the mode of
narration. Marlow alone would have been sufficient to distance the reader from Conrad,
if such a distancing was necessary. The introduction of another narrator,
besides Marlow is a most clumsy device for which we as readers cannot forgive Conrad.
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