Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad The Norton Critical Edition, 4th Edition. Edited by Paul B. Armstrong. Introduction Colonialism can be viewed in three ways: from the colonizers’, from the colonized, and those who could be outside of both. Colonizers during the western exploration of the lands beyond Gibraltar pointed out noble reasons such as the spread of civilization and an advance culture for their seemingly insatiable conquests. Colonizers were viewed as having benefited from systems and government forms, as well as other scientific and knowledge advancements brought forth by the civilized colonizers. And in the view of those who remain to be outside these two platforms, lies varying degrees of objective narration and untold pain and suffering of peoples, a minority that has been “victim” of revenge of ungrateful natives, and a majority that either disappeared en masse, suffered en masse, and of ignoramuses that deserved their lessons. Conrad used a frame narrative where one character who sailed with the lead characters followed Charlie Marlow, a wandering seaman, narrating the story of Kurtz, the captain and Director of Companies in his adventures in Congo. All in all, there seem to be three personas for the narrator, all the more adding a blur on exactly pinpointing out whom of which the heart of the story pertains to. Nevertheless, this essay shall place the role of colonialism in this novella as an intended message of exploration on the evils of humanity and his so-called spread of civilization guised in colorful, albeit elegant wardrobe. Discussion A lot of coined description had been made out of the character of Kurtz the captain of the ship, Director of the Companies that sailed and explored a part of Africa for ivories in the 18 th century. Nevertheless, one is to be noted, that of which Tzvetan Todorov (1975) aptly placing Kurtz as the center of the story that symbolizes the “act of fiction, a construct based on a hollow center”. And yet, Katkin and Katkin (2004), examined the novella as one “problem of evil in an dominated by crimes against humanity: the Congo during the reign of the Belgian King Leopold. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, published in 1899, is based in part on the author’s experiences aboard the steamship Roi des Belges on the Congo River in 1890. The narrative contains three representations of evil: the base, primitive, perverse allure of lust and greed in the deepest recesses of the human psyche; evil at the heart of civilization and modernity; and the banal complicity of ordinary people whose silence and denial allows evil to prosper”. The narrative described London, either as the greatest town on earth, as “been one of the dark places of the earth,” or monstrous, amidst the bounty of nature where heaven and water meets earth and the less domesticated nature as the yawl Nellie sailed by Thames. Marlow was with four friends Kurtz, an accountant, a lawyer and other who remained un-identified but was the main narrator, men who lived on or near the sea, honorable and accomplished gentlemen of the British Empire at its Victorian zenith. As observed by Kaitkin and Kaitkin (2004), it was the narrator, and not Marlow who was obviously compelled to propagate the story beyond the intimate circle of the shi