![]() ![]() He is excellent at what he does and bad at what he does. That’s what I love about Heart of Darkness: no matter how hard you try, Kurtz doesn’t really fall into the category of good or bad. The story is a familiar one: a kind of allegorical morality play set in modern times: intelligent English children, left to their own devices, do not so much return to the dark as discover primitive outlets for the dark, which are reflected in their society at large. The prose shifts (or, as Golding would say, “bends”) from the simple to the pictorial. But as order collapses, strange howls echo in the night, terror begins to reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of rescue. ![]() So far from civilization, they can do whatever they want. Initially, without adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. At the start of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, arresting a group of schoolchildren. ![]()
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