To the outside world white is good and black is evil; it is as simple as that. This philosophy is embodied in Marlow’s aunt, who believes that his job is to bring light into the land of darkness and to enlighten the savages. This idea, however, becomes corrupted when white objects symbolize suffering and greed instead of good, and light images hide the presence of darkness. Symbols such as, a white rag, white imperialists …showed first 75 words of 747 total…

…showed last 75 words of 747 total…darkness” is not the uncivilized Congo, but is rather the alternative motives of the whites hidden by appearances. On the other hand, people that he meets that are white on the outside are filled with the “darkness of the heart.” The opposition between light and dark, black and white, good and evil is not the same in the Congo as it is in Europe. Without society these forces become perverted and hard to distinguish between.