Heart of Darkness
What lurks in the deepest parts of the human soul when the veneer of civilization is stripped away?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Following Marlow's journey up the Congo in search of a man named Kurtz, I shuddered at the savagery hidden behind the name of civilization. The "darkness" Conrad portrays points not only to the jungles of Africa but to the deepest abyss within ourselves. Can a human being keep to the good in a place beyond the reach of morality and law? That chilling, weighty question lingers long in the mind. It was a reading both terrifying and wondrous, a gaze into the very floor of human nature.
"We live, as we dream—alone."Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
"우리는 마치 꿈을 꾸듯 산다. 언제나 혼자서."
🌱Apply It Today
Reflect honestly on how you would really act if no outside gaze or enforced rule were watching you at all, and write in your journal what true morality, free of others' eyes, means.
