Heart Of Darkness Part 1

I think that we have really only met one main character, and that would be Charlie Marlow. Charlie is a sailor who is described as having a sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion,  and an ascetic aspect. My guess is that he is in this 30s maybe 40s. He talks about going to Africa as a seaman, but he doesn't speak completely highly of European colonialism and Europeans in general. He is in Africa and told that they are savages and criminals, but he keeps having doubts about it from his observations. I would say that he is probably the protagonist. The story so far is about his journeys in Africa, so I think that Mr. Kurtz is probably going to be the antagonist because even though we haven't really me him. However, I think that it may be that there isn't really a antagonist that is a person. It's almost like the antagonist is Marlow's mind. His doubts about what Europeans are doing seems like it's going to be an internal struggle throughout the book, so I think that this book is man v. self rather than his being against someone. There's the major conflict of right and wrong when it comes to European expansion, which I think is going to be an overarching theme in the book.