In Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness it is the white invaders, who
             are, almost without exception, embodiments of blindness, selfishness, and
             cruelty. Even in the cognitive domain, where such positive phrases as to
             enlighten, for instance, are conventionally opposed to negative ones such as
             to be in the dark, the traditional expectations are reversed. In Kurtz's dark
             sketch painting of a woman, as we have seen, "the effect of the torch light on
             the face was sinister." (55) The destruction set upon the Congo by Europeans
             led to the cry of Kurtz's last words, "The horror! The horror!" (137) The horror
             in Heart of Darkness has been represented in a different aspects of a
             variety of situations in the book. However, Kurtz's last words "The horror!
             The horror!" (137) are intended to underline three major aspects of this horror.
             One of these aspects are the horror of Kurtz's own in capacity for self-restraint, the
             second situation represents the colonizers' greed for ivory does to them, and the third is the Europe's darkness, its deep ignorance of the moral dimensions of its expansion.
             Kurtz comes to the Congo with noble intentions. He thought that "each
             [ivory] station should stand like a beacon on the road", (65-66) offering a better
             way of life to the natives. He was considered a "universal genius": he
             was an orator, writer, musician, artist, ivory producer, and chief agent of the
             ivory company's Inner Station. Yet, he was also a "hollow man", a man
             without basic integrity or any sense of social responsibility. Kurtz issues the
             feeble cry, "The horror! The horror!" (137) and the man of vision, of poetry,
             the emissary of pity, and ivory producer, and progress is gone. The jungle
             closes' around Kurtz, and cuts him off from civilization; he reveals his dark
             side. Once the darkness has entered his heart, and he is shielded from the light.
             Kurtz turns ...