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Joseph Conrad. Kurtz, like Marlow, can be situated within a larger tradition. Kurtz resembles the archetypal “evil genius”: the highly gifted but ultimately degenerate individual whose fall is the stuff of legend. Kurtz is related to figures like Faustus, Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick ’ s Ahab, and Wuthering Heights ’ s ...
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Marlow offers this image of Kurtz near the end of Part 2...
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Racism. Summary. Analysis. Some time later, as Marlow rests on his steamship, he overhears the General Manager talking with his Uncle about Kurtz. They are annoyed that Kurtz has so much influence in the Company and sends back so much ivory. The General Manager also mentions a trader who lives near Kurtz and is apparently stealing Company profits.
Joseph Conrad. Kurtz Character Analysis. The fiancé of his Intended, and a man of great intellect, talent, and ambition who is warped by his time in the Congo. Kurtz is the embodiment of all that's noble about European civilization, from his talent in the arts to his ambitious goals of "civilizing" and helping the natives of Africa, and can be ...
Kurtz is a central fictional character in Joseph Conrad 's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness. A trader of ivory in Africa and commander of a trading post, he monopolizes his position as a demigod among native Africans. Kurtz meets with the novella's protagonist, Charles Marlow, who returns him to the coast via steamboat.
Character Analysis Kurtz. One of the most enigmatic characters in twentieth-century literature, Kurtz is a petty tyrant, a dying god, an embodiment of Europe, and an assault on European values. These contradictory elements combine to make Kurtz so fascinating to Marlow — and so threatening to the Company.
Part 2 of Heart of Darkness offers the reader some of Conrad's most dense passages. Sentences such as "It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention" may seem confusing, but the difficulty here instead is Marlow's, because much of Heart of Darkness concerns how its protagonist struggles to articulate what traveling through the jungle is like .
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Kurtz has fallen a complete victim to the power of the jungle, has transformed into its "spoiled and pampered favorite." (2.29). He's basically become a child, and not a nice one, either: a greedy, selfish, and brutal playground bully. Or as Marlow so beautifully says, the "powers of darkness have claimed him for their own" (2.29).
