"Heart of Darkness" tells us the journey of a man into a dark truth of mankind, we are animals when it comes to greed and survival. The people are blinded by greed and can not see that the workers are human too. The darkness of the land gets to them and turns them into beasts that consume as much as they can. Symbolism is used often throughout the story. Darkness is constantly referred to describing the land and at the same time it represents the Europeans who are evil and have destroyed the land.