#2 pg 429

The first couple paragraphs of Heart of Darkness is very vivid in its discription of the ominous and dark setting. Marlow begins his tale of a journey to the heart of darkness with an account of London in "very old times,when the Romans first came here" to exemplify the darkness of the situation. The way Marlow describes London, England sounds like a terrible colony. England is the punishment for those who gamble are exiled to England. In the situation he explains, everything is reversed and that is why he makes the connection between England in Roman time and the English colonization of Africa.