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Sin In Heart Of Darkness

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Sin is an immoral act considered to be a transgression against moral law. Sin is crafted through lies, hatred, pain, and negative emotions that can lead to disobedience and suspicion. Without trust and obedience, sin can overcome any situation if people allow that to happen. The power that sin is allowed to have can lead to many more difficult situations than originally created. Sin is characterized as a break in a relationship, an infraction of any law, rule, or code, and the corruption of the mind and heart with little to no guilt. Sin shatters the bond between people and God as well as others around them. “Sin is a break in a relationship thanks to our words, thoughts, actions, and inactions” (“What is Sin?”, 2017, para. 4). People are separated from others by jealousy, hatred, and …show more content…

Laws like these get in the way of the truth of said actions. People believe the craziness of these laws and don 't grasp the sinful ways in which they are applied. “… as long as there was a piece of paper written over in accordance with some farcical law or other made down the river, it didn 't enter anybody’s head to trouble how they would live” (Conrad, n.d., p. 51). In Heart of Darkness, because the cannibals had their own written law, the other men on the boat did not care what they did with their lives. History shows time and time again, that corruption of the heart and the mind from sin leads to destruction of the soul. That contagious nature of this sin can lead to the destruction of others. “I felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast, the smell of the damp earth, the unseen presence of victorious corruption, the darkness of an impenetrable night…” (Conrad, n.d., p. 81). In Heart of Darkness, Marlow experiences the feeling of being taken over by Darkness from what Kurtz has done. This parallels to the time of Hitler’s reign over Germany and the destruction of six million Jews and millions of

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