“Heart of Darkness” helps us understand the main problems of our current time. If we go back in time and look at history, some of the things that happen are too hard to truly understand. An example would be Holocaust. How could people allow this types of genocide to occur? How could people participate in these atrocities? “Heart of Darkness” is a great example of how people allowed horrible things to happen as a result of propaganda. Propaganda is the spreading of false misleading information that eventually causes chaos. Seeing as the novel was written in 1899 it still dealt with the issue of genocide, then fast forward 40 years later and in 199 WWII/holocaust begun. This shows that people don’t change no matter how much we might believe
