Rafael needed to find something interesting to read. Her teacher had assigned her class to write an article on a book and Rafael wanted it to be a cleverly woven masterpiece. Rafael checked into her school’s library one day and carefully browsed through the selection of books until she found a book that was rumoured to be interesting and thought provoking.
“The minute I opened the book and began reading the first words, I knew I was in for a literary delight”, Rafael says, “The words speak to a person; one can imagine the scene that is being narrated. While reading the Heart of Darkness, I realized that the book was new and interesting in ways Conrad could never have imagined. “
At a first glance Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness may seem to the untrained eye of Charles Marlows’s experience as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa and his encounter with a manager in African interior who makes himself worshipped by a group of savages. “But, there is a greater underlying meaning to the plot”, states Rafael. “This book is about a man entering Africa as a manager, and soon becomes so overcome with the lust for ivory, that he is unable to make moral decisions. In this book morals are …show more content…
Belgium rationalizes that they are conducting a fair trade when teaching the savages about Christianity and civilizing them in exchange for free labour and materials. These actions, were done by taking advantage of the poor Africans’ ignorance, and led to the sins of theft and murder which their bible explicitly preaches against. Moreover, although the Belgiums think that they are turning the savages into civil beings, they are ultimately revealing themselves as being the true savages. Rafael continues saying that this duplicity was only evident to her after learning about the Church’s hypocrisies when it came to dealing with the Jews in Jewish History and John Locke in World
“The minute I opened the book and began reading the first words, I knew I was in for a literary delight”, Rafael says, “The words speak to a person; one can imagine the scene that is being narrated. While reading the Heart of Darkness, I realized that the book was new and interesting in ways Conrad could never have imagined. “
At a first glance Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness may seem to the untrained eye of Charles Marlows’s experience as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa and his encounter with a manager in African interior who makes himself worshipped by a group of savages. “But, there is a greater underlying meaning to the plot”, states Rafael. “This book is about a man entering Africa as a manager, and soon becomes so overcome with the lust for ivory, that he is unable to make moral decisions. In this book morals are …show more content…
Belgium rationalizes that they are conducting a fair trade when teaching the savages about Christianity and civilizing them in exchange for free labour and materials. These actions, were done by taking advantage of the poor Africans’ ignorance, and led to the sins of theft and murder which their bible explicitly preaches against. Moreover, although the Belgiums think that they are turning the savages into civil beings, they are ultimately revealing themselves as being the true savages. Rafael continues saying that this duplicity was only evident to her after learning about the Church’s hypocrisies when it came to dealing with the Jews in Jewish History and John Locke in World