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Marlow describes them as aimlessly "firing into a continent." They used a warship to bombard open brush, regardless of the fact that they didn't even know whether anyone was hiding in it. One character describes a French attempt to quash rebellious locals.After Marlow finishes talking about his journey to Africa, one of the listeners responds with, "We have lost the first of the ebb." One of the most common interpretations of this line is that shows just how callous most people are to the brutality going on in Africa. Apathetic Citizens: Overlaps with Ignored Epiphany.If you were looking for the actual videogame adaptation of this work, you’re looking for Spec Ops: The Line. If you were looking for the totally unrelated video game, you can find it here. There have also been two Made-for-TV Movie adaptations, in 1958 (that one has its own trope page) and 1993. Kurtz, a man shrouded in mystery but known by all for both being the manager of the top-earning post and for his controversial business practices. As he visits the various trading posts and their leaders, he is forced not only to bear witness to, but try not to succumb to the savage environment, the brutal enslavement of the Africans at the hands of the settlers, and the human heart at its absolute darkest. The objective, as laid out by his employer, is to pick up and return with the ivory harvests collected by each trading outpost along the way. The tale tells the story of Charles Marlow, a seaman just hired as a ferry captain for a Belgian trading company in the Congo, after the last one was killed by the natives over a petty dispute. This serves as a Framing Device for the tale of woe. It all started when he was just starting out as a seaman. He goes on to explain how he got to know this darkness, along with its effect on people, so incredibly well. how the island of Great Britain was once savage, untamed, and incredibly inhospitable to outsiders. As they fill the time with pleasant conversation, one of them suddenly speaks of how the very river they are on was once "one of the dark places of the earth," i.e. The book starts in the 19th century with five close friends on a boat in the Thames river just outside London, waiting for the tide to go out. Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad, originally published as a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899.