Someone once told me the only activity proven to make people smarter is reading. I feel like if I could just understand Heart of Darkness a little better I could feel myself getting smarter as I read it. I am obviously no expert on literature but I feel it is the most well written book we have read so far this year and we have read some very well written books. I definitely started noticing black and white imagery more and more as I got towards the end of the book. A few examples really stood out to me when Marlow goes to visit the lady in the Kurtz's painting. "The tall marble fireplace had a cold and monumental whiteness. A grand pianio stood massively in a corner, with dark gleams..." (139). "She came forward, all in black, with a pale head" (139). "That great and saving illusion that shone with an unearthly glow in the darkness" (142). Even when all is dark around Marlow and this woman they are in the middle of a light because they knew Kurtz.
I really did not understand "The horror! The horror!" (130). Did Kurtz, in death, understand the true horror of the world? Or maybe of his actions?
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