Heart of Darkness Blog #6 pg. 430

In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a painting of Kurtz is described.  In the painting is a blindfolded women holding a torch.  This representation serves to symbolize justice.  However; the torch can symbolize the search or want for justice.  That in this dark and foreign land power and ambitions have gone to the leader's heads and justice has been lost.  This painting can also serve as a symbol that their is no justice there and this a place where justice is actually blind, unable to prevent the violence and corruption.