the cruelty of European rule In Brussels Marlow calls the city the White Sepulchre This is hypocrisy The empire talks of light and progress but brings death At the Outer Station he sees starving Africans At the Central Station men whisper only of ivory At the Inner Station Kurtz rules with skulls on stakes The heart of imperialism is only greed and horror The Darkness of the Human Soul Most deeply the title means the evil inside man Kurtz is the best example Once he was an Emissary of pity and science and progress But in the jungle he loses his morality He becomes cruel and empty At death he cries The horror The horror These words show the inner darkness of humanity Thus the title Heart of Darkness is rich in meaning It shows the literal darkness of Africa the political darkness of the empire and the moral darkness in men like Kurtz It is a perfect title nbsp