"Conrad's indirect, ambiguous style is not chiefly something to confuse or discourage the reader. Instead, it is a means to creating a perfect atmosphere for Heart of Darkness, a dark dream of the human soul confronting an impenetrable moral challenge. ... What does it mean to give oneself to a tempting darkness? To a tempting character? What happens when that power that once tempted the mind and then was received by the mind, finally betrays that mind? Dark thoughts indeed"--
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"Conrad's indirect, ambiguous style is not chiefly something to confuse or discourage the reader. Instead, it is a means to creating a perfect atmosphere for Heart of Darkness, a dark dream of the human soul confronting an impenetrable moral challenge. ... What does it mean to give oneself to a tempting darkness? To a tempting character? What happens when that power that once tempted the mind and then was received by the mind, finally betrays that mind? Dark thoughts indeed"--
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