A review by alexbailey7
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

3.0

The writing style is absolutely gorgeous, but I didn't really enjoy the story itself. Conrad was certainly a talented writer who understood how to use metaphors and create a symbolic story, but I don't believe "Heart of Darkness" accomplished anything that it claimed to have set out to do. It didn't draw my attention the way I thought it would, I didn't end up liking any of the characters, and it felt very outdated. For all its talk about how colonialism is bad, it doesn't manage to take a strong stance on it or actually make a solid point. You can never tell whether Marlow undergoes any character development, and it's impossible to know whether Conrad truly realized the depth of the horrors he was attempting to discuss.