Heart of Darkness is a novel about one man's journey up the Congo River in order to meet an idealistic man of great abilities. A dystopian novel is characterized by a society that is undesirable or frightening, usually with dehumanization, totalitarian governments, and environmental disaster. The decline in society that is characteristic of a dystopia is found in Heart of Darkness as Marlow recounts his journey about trying to find the godlike Kurtz. It can then be noted that both of the charact ...