Prompt Seventeen

• What is the significance of Kurtz’ soul going mad?  What caused his insanity?

Kurtz, having been away from "civilization" for so long, began his own demise when appointing himself basically ruler of the natives. While he was playing jungle god, he slowly began to deteriorate from the inside. Without being caught up in the hustle of actually encountering any authority, the corporate fears of being reprimanded and consequences of abandoning a moral code were non-existent. So, Kurtz did just that. His self-regard as well as his empathy were completely removed by his thirst for power and once he quenched it, his former sanity was reduced to a void full of corruption. However, to say that it was merely his own doing is incorrect. The human condition is what renders Kurtz a mindless maniac. Humans are over calculating and analyzing of everything they come across, more subconsciously than conscious. The internal conflicts proved to be the infliction on the way he was used to function. He thought about his life back home, he thought about the position of power he was in, he thought about survival, then his brain shut down and reverted to primal instinct. No more worry. No more pain. Just the soulless body and it's instinct to exist.