In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, who has the light and who has the darkness?

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represents an ironic reinterpretation of who holds the qualities of light
and dark. The speaker, Marlowe, has all the standard belief of an Englishman of his time in
London as the greatest city on Earth; in real work being done in giving the advantages of
civilization to the native peoples of Africa; and in the superiority of European intelligence
and virtue over the primitive ways of those whao are native to the African continent. In an
ironic twist of fate, Marlowe comes to compare the integrity and dignified behavior of the
cannibals traveling on his ship to the behavior of the Europeans on his ship for...