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Essay / Ethics and Morality in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
For the most part, each person decides what they are going to do. There are laws that suggest what a person should do and suggest whether something is right or wrong, based on the standards of a society. The laws will be different and will vary from place to place. An example of this would be marijuana. In Colorado, smoking marijuana is legal, but here in Arizona, it's illegal. Some people believe that smoking marijuana is wrong, while others have no problem with it. It is human nature to believe that it is right and wrong, but it is also a human choice that determines right and wrong for people. If someone doesn't think something is wrong, they are more than likely to do what they want. they want. And depending on what they do, their actions can lead to consequences, minor or serious. Human nature plays a huge role in how someone acts in a society. An example from the Heart of Darkness would be how the people of the villages along the winding river treat and kill someone because of a simple misunderstanding of language. They killed the ship's captain, Fresleven, because of a “quarrel born from a misunderstanding between certain hens” (Condrad, 2014). If someone had a misunderstanding now, in this day and age, they might take a different approach instead of killing that person. Human nature plays a major role in what someone thinks they are