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Heart of darkness is a novella by polish British novelist Joseph Conrad which is between a novel and a short story in length and scope it has the genre as symbolism, colonial literature, adventure tale, frame story, almost a romance in its insistence on heroism and the supernatural and its preference for the symbolic over the realistic. Marlow,Kurtz, General Manager,Brick maker,Chief accountant, pilgrims,Cannibals,Russian trader,Helmsman,Kurtz's African mistress, Kurtz's intended,Aunt,the men aboard the Nellie are the characters involved in this novel. Marlow services as the protagonist of this novel. This novel shows economic freedom, social advancement,an escape from a life of being an employee. It seems that the darkness is infact internalised that it is part of some fundamental if ironic unsoundness. Kurtz dies uttering his last words -the hurror! Kurtz's wife asks what her fiance last words were, but Marlow can not bring himself to shatter illusions with the truth,instead , he tells her that Kurtz's last word was her name. This novel suggests that power inevitably corrupts. In this novel Marlow acts as a guide for the reader. The general manager, the Cannibals the pilgrims are accompanied Marlow on his journey up the river from a central station. The chief accountants' most notable character is his spotless white clothing