Jungle

Jungle

The jungle symbolizes a journey marlow has to go through, the "unearthly earth", and freedom.

The jungle naturally is untamed,  we are not used to it because "we are uccustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster," meaning that us as humans have trampled all over nature and that the real earth, the one we have not met with is a monster. Marlow has a hard time with the jungle, running into various problems and seemingly with people with psychological problems such as Kurtz with his quest for ivory.

Freedom is another thing that the jungle symbolizes. People in the jungle have the freedom to do what they want because it is untamed and no one has trampled over it and formed a government. Freedom is what people adore; seeing a jungle untamed and having the freedom to do as it pleases makes it great for an adventure.

Marlow goes through the jungle on seemingly an adventure, the jungle has freedom and is untamed so an adventure filled with many treacherous and amazing things to discover. The jungle is like and open book on Marlow's adventure. According to symbolism, the jungle can be for the survival of the fittest or the darkest abyss of mankind which parallels with Heart of Darkness and Marlow's journey throughout the jungle.