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/^t/The next point in the discussion will be the influence of the environment on the character, or more specifically, the problem of his being out of the reach of civilisation. Kurtz, isolated in the African jungle, confirmed of his supremacy, begins to "play God" and arranges his own world. Here, it is not the lust, but the power itself, that makes the man insane. He is aware of his intellectual strength which is effective enough to make the people subservient, he also realises that he does not undergo any punishment. Kurtz is mighty but, at the same time, lonely; the heart of darkness, he had created, turns into the heart of madness in his mind, as being in the very centre, one cannot see what is outside. It would be inappropriate to say that where civilisation ends, barbarity begins; still, it can be a root of evil and may lead to serious psychological disturbances. On the other hand, we cannot assume that Kurtz was mentally ill, he simply wanted to create his own new world, the methods used to do it is a separate question.