Orleanna's Words

Orleanna’s words have ironic echoes of both Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, and the story of creation from the Bible. Heart of Darkness follows one man's nightmarish journey into the Congo. Along the way, he witnesses brutality and hate between colonizers and the native African people. Like Kurtz, Nathan also places himself in a god-like position over his family and over the people he is attempting to convert even though he himself is emotionally prostrate before God. It is a misplaced perception of himself, and the observation comes as close to satire as Orleanna is able to get. Neither she nor her husband had dominion over themselves, let alone the "creatures" of the earth. Orleanna also speaks about darkness which she believed to be