Question

Early in Conrad's 1903 novella, Marlow makes a comment "one of the dark places on earth". About what place does he say this?

Answer 1

It says that London and Africa are the places of darkness.

Answer 2

Answer: London

In the first few pages of the novella "Heart of Darkness," we encounter five men who are relaxing on the deck of a ship anchored at the mouth of the Thames. The men are in a reflective mood, and after a while, one of them comments on how London was, at some point in history, "one of the dark places of the earth." He thinks of a Roman soldier who might have had to travel to England, where nothing was to be found except for wilderness.