Abstract
This chapter evaluates themes such as narrative success and narrative failure. This chapter is closely related to sophisticated modulations of the narrative method employed. In some of the tales by Joseph Conrad the relationship is more strained as in Chance where the narrative function of Marlow invites adverse commentary, or in Victory, where the thematic purpose of the heavy allegorizing seems unclear. In addition to the frame narrator, the most essential elements of the narrative method of ‘Heart of Darkness’ are constituted by Marlow's functions as narrator and character. There is a general danger attached to the narrative technique of interposing a simpler narrator between the reader and the text's major narrator: the views of the frame narrator may reduce or distort the complexity of the narrative he presents.
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