Heart of Darkness is a modern novel written by Joseph Conrad. It is one of the finest works of Conrad which shows his power as a writer of great luminosity, passion and complexity. The story Conrad depicts in ‘Heart of Darkness’ is based on the real backdrop that happened during the time of ‘Leopold II of Belgium’. The second king, Leopold II set an eye on Congo and colonized Africa. He brings out the sufferance of the people of Congo under the rule of Leopold II. People were enslaved, exploited, abused and their natural resources like Ivory were exploited. Where by the poem, The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling is also based on the European attitudes towards imperialism in pessimistic. They considered the work
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In the text the Heart of Darkness Joseph use a characters to reveal Europeans true nature to people where as in the poem The White Man’s Burden, Rudyard has just shared his feelings in direct way. He have used less character in order to show the direct nature of Europeans to readers where as Joseph in Heart of Darkness he used a character of Mr. Kurtz in order to show the true color of Europeans. For example in the text, through the Russian man we come to know how Mr. Kurtz tried to shoot him when he saw a single ivory in his hand. The greed and lust of the Europeans clearly portrays the ill and dark side of human being. Mr. Kurtz symbolizes the darkest side of imperialism. Through the journey, Marlow comes to learn a lot about life. He comes to discover out the true reality of people. Marlow himself was there as a part of the colonizers and he has not done anything good to support the natives. Therefore in the text Heart of Darkness Joseph used the cruel character of Mr. Kurtz who symbolize Europeans where as Rudyard in his poem The White Man’s Burden he didn’t mentioned more characters. He just tried to open or show the true nature of Europeans in the poem that how Natives were treated. More over Rudyard was awfully in favor of imperialism where as we can say Conrad was not completely against imperialism but moreover he is trying to justify it in some
In the text the Heart of Darkness Joseph use a characters to reveal Europeans true nature to people where as in the poem The White Man’s Burden, Rudyard has just shared his feelings in direct way. He have used less character in order to show the direct nature of Europeans to readers where as Joseph in Heart of Darkness he used a character of Mr. Kurtz in order to show the true color of Europeans. For example in the text, through the Russian man we come to know how Mr. Kurtz tried to shoot him when he saw a single ivory in his hand. The greed and lust of the Europeans clearly portrays the ill and dark side of human being. Mr. Kurtz symbolizes the darkest side of imperialism. Through the journey, Marlow comes to learn a lot about life. He comes to discover out the true reality of people. Marlow himself was there as a part of the colonizers and he has not done anything good to support the natives. Therefore in the text Heart of Darkness Joseph used the cruel character of Mr. Kurtz who symbolize Europeans where as Rudyard in his poem The White Man’s Burden he didn’t mentioned more characters. He just tried to open or show the true nature of Europeans in the poem that how Natives were treated. More over Rudyard was awfully in favor of imperialism where as we can say Conrad was not completely against imperialism but moreover he is trying to justify it in some