You may want to think about the context of the colonial period that was at it height at the time he wrote this story and the justifications for colonizing other countries. you may also consider this form a psychoanalytic view point of the main characters in the story. Think about what Marlow "admires" in Kurtz and what he deplores.
If Conard uses the metaphor of a nut to describe Marlow’s experience of life (remeber, the narrator states that Marlow wasn’t intent on getting to the hidden kernel, but found meaning in the enveloping external shell), what might Marlow have discovered about what is at the center, or heart, of things? How does this relate to the heart of darkness?
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