What is the role of women in Heart of Darkness?

For the most part, Heart of Darkness is a tale of men. The majority of the novel's characters are male, and Marlow's account is related to an all-male audience aboard the Nellie. Despite these facts, women do play an important role in the tale.

If the European men in the Congo are the foot soldiers of colonization, the European women are the behind-the-lines generals. They are the silent strategists. This point is first revealed when Marlow tries to obtain a position in the Congo.

He attempts to get a job on his own merits and through his own connections, but he strikes out. The men whose help he enlists do nothing for him. Marlow comments: "Then-would you believe it-I tried the women.

I, Charlie Marlow, set the women to work-to get a job! Heavens!" There is a certain amount of incredulity and shame in his comment, yet the reality, which each of Marlow's listeners probably knows, though would surely hesitate to admit, is that women are particularly powerful figures in European ... more.

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