Your strength is really a coincidence brought on by others' weaknesses. Heart of Darkness, a potent and contentious novella by Polish-born English author Joseph Conrad, was initially serialised in Blackwoods Magazine in 1899. The novella, which is primarily set in the Belgian Congo, examines the crippling effects of colonisation on both the coloniser and the colonised. English sailor Charles Marlow, the story's unreliable narrator, is hired by a Belgian corporation to command a steamship in the recently created Congo Free State. Marlow sails upriver in quest of another corporate employee named Kurtz after hearing rumours that he is supposedly stationed in the interior. Both during the trip and in his interaction with Kurtz,