The Women of Heart of Darkness by Jeremy Hawthorn

-Marlow believes that women live in a more than perfect world and this leads to the perpetuation of the cycle that fuels imperialism

-The three main women in Heart of Darkness are Marlow’s aunt, Kurtz’s African mistress, and Kurtz’s Intended, and it is important to recognize that Marlow’s view of woman is different for the European women and the African women.
-European women = debilitated and sterile
-African women = passionate and fecund

-Woman serve the purpose of “soothing” men who do imperialism’s dirty work, and woman are able to do that by living in a “world of their own” that is naïve and idealistic.

-Kurtz manages to destroy both his African mistress and his Intended by abandoning them both in different ways.