《黑暗的心脏》通过讲述主人公马洛沿刚果河而上深入非洲腹地的一次航行,向人们展示了失去社会道德规范约束以后人类道德的堕落与沦丧,尽管现实如此惨烈,小说中的几个原型还是让人们看到了人性救赎的希望。为了更好地理解这部小说,本文试图通过对小说中几个原型的分析对人性问题展开探讨,力图挖掘出小说中尚存的对人性的希望。 “Dark Heart” tells the story of the degeneration and loss of human morality after losing the social morality norms through narrating the sailing of the hero Mallow along the Congo River in the hinterland of Africa. Although the reality is so tragic, several prototypes in the novel Or let people see the hope of human salvation. In order to better understand this novel, this article attempts to explore the issue of human nature through the analysis of several archetypes in the novel in an attempt to excavate the remaining hope of human nature in the novel.