Youth/ Heart of Darkness The End of the Tether

Conrad''s aim was ''by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see'' Heart of Darkness, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of ''seeing'', its relativity and shifting compromise. Portraying a young man''s first sea-voyage to...