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This is a 7 page paper discussing racism in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”. Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness” (1901) is highly controversial in regards to its racist perspective towards the African native. Although “darkness” within the story is also used to describe the darkness within all men and societies, even those within England and Europe, overall Conrad, through the character of Marlow whose background is very much like his own, shows the racist perspective which was generally accepted at the time in that Africans were considered “prehistoric”, “frenzied” and the environment in which they lived appeared “unearthly” and at times the natives appeared to be nearly “inhuman” in their differences and contrasts to the white man. Europeans, on the other hand, while they may have apparent elements of darkness within, are described in terms of purity, fairness, orderliness, and are civilized and those who, including Conrad, can only appreciate the African native in his own environment but in no means could extend that appreciation beyond that in comparison with Europeans and European society; a racist attitude which was reflected by Conrad within the story.
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describe the darkness within all men and societies, even those within England and Europe, overall Conrad, through the character of Marlow whose background is very much like his own, shows
the racist perspective which was generally accepted at the time in that Africans were considered "prehistoric", "frenzied" and the environment in which they lived appeared "unearthly" and at times the
natives appeared to be nearly "inhuman" in their differences and contrasts to the white man. Europeans, on the other hand, while they may have apparent elements of darkness within, are
described in terms of purity, fairness, orderliness, and are civilized and those who, including Conrad, can only appreciate the African native in his own environment but in no means could
extend that appreciation beyond that in comparison with Europeans and European society; a racist attitude which was reflected by Conrad within the story.
Although Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was born and raised in Poland, he was a member of the British merchant navy from the years 1878 to 1894 and became a British citizen
in 1886. In 1889, Conrad traveled to the Congo and became a captain of a Congo river steamboat. It is believed that "what he say, did, and felt in the
Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies not only the heart of Africa, the dark continent,
but also the heart of evil - everything that is corrupt, nihilistic, malign, and perhaps the heart of man" (Virtanen, 2003). The novella, "Heart of Darkness" first published in serial
form and then formerly in 1901, and 1902, tells of the "horror" Conrad witnessed during his time in Africa but also tells of the racism of the time. The novella
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