Sarah Harris

Moral/Intellectual Approach

What lessons does this book teach us?

How can we apply it to our lives?

Marlow’s Journey Outer Station

Rowing Africans

Sick Africans

Chained Africans

Central Station

Meets men that make him uneasy

African is beat because a hut caught on fire

Learns of Kurtz

Inner Station

Refers to Africans as “cannibals”

“Proceed with caution”

Human skulls

“The Horror! The Horror!”

Back in civilization

Angry at people who haven’t seen the evil

Views everyday struggles as petty

Kurtz

Gets his ivory by raiding villages

Wants to be high up in the company

“The powers of darkness have claimed him

for their own.” --Marlow

Heads on sticks

“The Horror, the horror”

So What?

Evil

“Heart of darkness”

Situation gets worse as Marlow travels further into

Africa:

○ Mistreated Africans (So that the Company can

prosper)

○ Human skulls

○ Kurtz’s unethical method of getting ivory

○ “The Horror, the horror”

So What?

Understand that the world is an evil place –

Fall of Man

Understand that there is darkness in all of

our hearts (sinful nature)

Strive for goodness and morality

Be the “Light” in a dark world