Journey

A journey for many people can symbolize many things, according to academia. Symbolically as a person reads farther and farther into the book, Heart of Darkness, it gets progressively darker and that its like the journey Marlow has up the river is like going back in time. Since the 1890's was such a height for imperialism and colonialism; the river is like going back into the roots of imperialism and colonialism, down to the nitty gritty and the morbid acts of mankind. The journey in the context of the river and the steamboat resembles and enormous snake and Marlow travels down the snake into its burough into the depths of land. For the steamboat and the sailors however, the journey symbolizes something completely different. The journey for them symbolizes life, the sea is their country and their home is their ship. They dont feel comftorble on anything else and the congo luckily was their best way of staying close to water or in other words their home. The journey at last can symbolize the development of a character, going farther and farther down the river, farther into the journey Marlow travels symbolizes the slight maturity that marlow goes through and see's things he may not have not necessarily seen before.