Hypocrisy In Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness

I n the essay, the author introduced Heart of Darkness in a different way where he compared it to the Holocaust. The were many problems that were discussed throughout the essay that need to be fixed in our society. Problems like prophecy, silence, death, dictatorships, and darkness took a big place in our history. Many of those problems were and are still caused due to bad influenced dictatorship in our world.

The paper talked about many ideas throughout it. There were three main ideas that were covered in the first part like Prophecy, words fail, and silence. The essay is suggesting that Heart of Darkness came before an event like the Holocaust. Laskowsky suggests that not only that Conrad’s novel is prophetic to a …show more content…
Laskowsky talked about Sepulchres. They are buildings or caves that are used to store rotting corpses. Those are nice on the outside, but are horrible on the inside, which has become a symbol of hypocrisy. All of our lifestyles are part of the suffering of people around the world, even if we don’t want to notice or understand that. It was discussed at the end of the paragraph that death comes from nowhere but our own “Heart of Darkness”. Kurtz didn’t notice the darkness until he did not go to the darkest place on earth, realizing that the darkness is internal and that he was the darkness. Heart of Darkness changed my understanding of the holocaust by showing the past in a different way. I began to realize that it was as easy for Hitler to gain power and people to follow him like it was simple for Kurtz. This book was published before the Holocaust and it provided nothing to the holocaust. Conrad did predict it which had me thinking that the history would have been different, if it was noticed in time. I understood that even evil people can notice their mistakes of evilness and hatred at some point of their