Heart of Darkness; by Joseph Conrad A journey into the unknown "...darkness [that] was here yesterday" brings forth a sense of an embarked adventure not yet accomplished. Heart of Darkness presents this meaning fully from the main character to the purpose of an unrescued grail, (which was similiar to the legendary King Aruthur's search for the holy grail a search for knowledge and rescue from evil"). Under no circumstance was the novel's grail anything but a "rescue" of the "god-like" Kurtz, Kurtz's journal and the Townson's Inquiry (An Inquiry into Some Points of Seamanship). Charles Marlow, the main speaker in