Heart of Darkness is written by Joseph Conrad who is a Polish mariner. His novel is published in 1899. Heart of Darkness is based on Conrad’s own journey to Belgian Congo. Besides, he remains in the British Merchant Navy for years, then he decided to write stories by inspiring on his own experiences. “Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe”( 166).Also, “Conrad is considered an early modernist though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism”(Robson 93).
