![]() ![]() Darkness could be a sign of the white man's heart, which demand to be a representative of European light that comes to the Congo to save the Congo, although in actuality it is the white man who slaughters the Congo. Darkness could be bright to us if we glance at it from a distinct angle. So far darkness is used as an emblem of ignorance and primitiveness. This all might be real and to a certain degree might be authentic. One might ponder that darkness in this novel refers to the Congo, the African people who live there, how so they lived in illiteracy, act ferociously and roughly. Conrad leaves the meaning of this darkness vague on purpose. Since this novel leans in the direction of the dark more than light, the dark will be our center of concentration. Conrad tells us about the character of the human's heart and how can that be turned from good to bad. ![]() Darkness symbolizes wilderness, immoral and avarice. The darkness is in the title and also the major point of this book. We read this novel from perspectives unavailable to its first audience: we question assumptions about race and self-government, which that audience didn't - we live in a different world with different maps, and different cultural and political orders." Joseph Conrad's 1902 novel Heart of Darkness is about many things: seafaring, riverboating, trade and exploration, imperialism and colonialism, race relations, the attempt to find meaning in the universe while trying to get at the mysteries of the subconscious mind. That is one of Marlow's blemish, he does not support his beliefs and convictions. On the contrary, he just turns away and accepts that it is happening. Nonetheless, when he sees mistreatment and unfair handling he does not physically try to stop it. When the manager seriously hit a young black boy for the burnt woodshed Marlow deprecate. Marlow notice numerous kinds of violation of authority by other whites, plainly in view of they have superior weapons of war. In addition, when he says, "I was an impostor," Marlow identifies the actuality that he is an intruder into a foreign land, yet he sticks to his virtuous values. When Marlow states, "I had got a heavenly mission to civilize you," he deliberates his moral intent to aid the Africans advance and headway. Marlow as a character recognizes the evil that contrary Imperialism has caused and concludes it is truly needless. In Conrad's Heart of Darkness Marlow, the chief character, represent the absoluteness of Imperialism. But an occasional wave thrusts up unexpectedly, much further than the others even as far, say, as Kurtz and his Inner Station"- Albert J. The waves encroach fairly evenly on the shore, and presently a few more feet of sand have been won. 'My Intended, my ivory.Heart of Darkness advances and withdraws as in a succession of long dark waves borne by an incoming tide. "You should have heard him say, 'My ivory.' Oh, yes, I heard him. The Kurtz who we first meet in the text through Marlow’s eyes is far different character. But that was the early Kurtz, the one we know only through descriptions by others. Kurtz in the beginning acts as a voice crying in the wilderness and is to make every crooked place straight, every low place high, and every backward, non-western place western for the glory of the colonialist cause. Kurtz originally comes as a deliverer, sent to guide and further the cause, to the “good news” of Western colonialism (much like Jesus’ apostle/ Angel Gabriel). “He is an emissary of pity, and science, and progress.We want.for the guidance of the cause entrusted to us by Europe.higher intelligence.a singleness of purpose.he comes here, a special being” pg.83 ![]() There, in the deepest pits of the jungle, those demonic and primitive people and their god partake in hellish rituals, taking all of the ivory they want without hesitation, living as they please He presents himself as a god to the natives, who are awed by Kurtz's magnificence and become his devoted followers, his own fallen angels. Kurtz is Africa's Satan, whose forbidden fruit is ivory, drawing him away from the rules of civilization and creating a monster that feeds on fulfilling that one job, no matter the consequences. ![]()
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