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Heart Of Darkness - College Essay

Heart Of Darkness

In Joseph Conrad's book the Europeans are
cut off from civilization, overtaken by greed, exploitation, and
material interests from his own kind. Conrad develops themes of
personal power, individual responsibility, and social justice. His

book has all the trappings of the conventional adventure tale -

mystery, exotic setting, escape, suspense, unexpected attack. The

book is a record of things seen and done by Conrad while in the

Belgian Congo. Conrad uses Marlow, the main character in the book, as

a narrator so he himself can enter the story and tell it out of his

own philosophical mind. Conrad's voyages to the Atlantic and Pacific,

and the coasts of Seas of ...

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of reality, and the moral

darkness.

We have noticed that important motives in Heart of Darkness

connect the white men with the Africans. Conrad knew that the white

men who come to Africa professing to bring progress and light to

"darkest Africa" have themselves been deprived of the sanctions of

their European social orders; they also have been alienated from the

old tribal ways.

"Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be

utterly damned by their greed, their sloth, and their hypocrisy into

moral insignificance, as were the pilgrims, or they may be so corrupt

by their absolute power over the Africans that some Marlow will need

to lay their memory among the 'dead Cats of Civilization.'" (Conrad

105.) The supposed purpose of the Europeans traveling into Africa was

to civilize the natives. Instead they colonized on the native's land

and corrupted the natives.

"Africans bound ...

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