Abstract
Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad (First edition, 1899.) Penguin Classics deluxe edition, 2012, PB, 144pp, £7.99, 978-0143106586 What happens if one has all restraints removed? Do we at last flourish, to become our true selves? Do we become happy? Or would our flaws turn us away from both happiness and flourishing? Such a question is usually meaningless. We are social creatures embedded in relationship networks that jointly determine our behaviour and our path. But some unusual individuals, often leaders, manage to achieve an unusual level of autonomy, totally dominating the led. Unrestrained. This usually ends in tears. Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness is often remembered as the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now , the action transposed to the Vietnam War and containing one of Marlon Brando’s last great roles. Heart of Darkness itself is easily …
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