Heart of Darkness
African river journey
Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella about a journey up the Congo River to find a mysterious ivory trader named Kurtz.
The phrase has become shorthand for confronting humanity's capacity for brutality, moral corruption, or the darkness within civilization itself: The documentary took viewers into the heart of darkness of the opioid crisis.
- ConradMale given name
- jungleDense tropical forest
- CongoMajor Central African waterway
- Belgian CongoFormer central African colony
- ivoryTusk-derived material
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Genre featuring exciting journeys
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Adventure novel about African treasure
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