Modernist Experiments in Heart of Darkness In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness a form of chaotic writing takes place that is characteristic of modernists' experiments in their style of stream-of-consciousness literature . Written before the outbreak of World War I, it was about a different kind of chaos and uncertainty present in the world right now; the question of slavery. Heart of Darkness describes a journey to Africa, still common for the English, despite the horrific treatment that was evident from colonization. The chaotic, stream-of-consciousness style Conrad adopted helped show confusion and forced the reader to interpret for themselves what they thought the writer meant. Conrad experiments with this style, leaving some sentences open-ended: "not a sentimental fiction but an idea;...something you can set up...and offer a sacrifice to..." (Conrad, Longman p. 2195 ), a very discontinuous form of literature and makes the reader fill in the gaps and interpret himself, alone. Conrad avoids talking about "the two women feverishly knitting black wool" at the gates of the city (of hell), about his aunt whose women he believes are "out of touch with the truth", about how the English are "weak "devil(s) with eyes of rapacious and merciless madness" (Conrad, Longman pp. 2198, 2199 and 2202). Conrad's mind moves like ours along a long literary monologue to convey to the reader the ideas of the author, as interpreted by the reader. Conrad's narrative structure also continues his experimentation with modernist-style literary form. Two separate monologues are present in Heart of Darkness. The first part begins with an unnamed narrator on board the ship Nelly , who describes to himself, as well as the reader, the people aboard the ship, particularly Marlow. At first, we don't know for sure that the narrator is a character aboard the ship until, a few paragraphs later, he is identify as a person who observed others: "Among us there was, as I have already said" (Conrad, Longman p..