Seminar Response 1-23

Throughout the first chapter, the author uses darkness as a metaphor for evil instead of its literal meaning. The places that Marlow went to were places where there was a lot of killing and bad things going on. He was not used to the different morals that he had observed in the Congo and found it easier to refer to it as darkness. In the introduction it was stated that darkness or the color black meant the unknown, something difficult to comprehend, foreboding, and evil. In the reading, I can find most of these different definitions used in the chapter.