In literature, contrasting places are used by certain authors as a way of representing opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. We see this used in Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad as he applies the jungles of Africa, and Europe to develop the concept of "civilization" and "the heart of darkness" respectively. Conrad is attempting to explain how even the most cultured individual can face a decision of morality and ethics when put in a questioning situation like Kurtz, one of the only decent men sent into the jungle to help the natives, is forced to answer. Europe and Africa differ in many ways, obviously by location, but more importantly, moralistically, how developed they are, and how "civilized" they had become. "Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, an....

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