Heart of Darkness 2

Over the course of the voyage Marlow arrives at a new station. Over there he finds out that his ship has been sunk in the river and has to stay a while for all of the parts to come and repair it, and during this period he becomes fairly interested in Kurtz while the manager fears what Kurtz could do to his position.

After months of waiting, the last of the steamboat's parts arrive, which means that Marlow and his new recruit of "pilgrims" can finally depart on the long and heavy journey up the dark river in the heart of the Congo. The thick jungle forces them to be weary about their surroundings and they can often see the the native villages through the gaps in the trees which provokes the passengers aboard the steamboat to become scared, and the sudden beats of the drums from the villages causes their hearts to beat with them.

I believe that The Heart of Darkness could symbolise many different things including the white colony in the middle of the mass of black colonies, even though the whites are lighter on the outside they are darker on the inside because they treat the blacks as slaves. It could also mean Kurtz's heart as it is purely dark, and he catches a disease therefore it could mean his heart of darkness that is slowly dying.