Heart Of Darkness is one of the most important Joseph Conrad’s novels. It was written in 1899 in English, his third language, and its main topics are the relation between civilitation and savages and the evil side of the human being.
It is considered to be one of the most difficult books to understand because the quantity of symbols that dull the reading. During the story, there are a lot of details we have to consider and think about them as messages the writter wanted to reflect. Let’s divide it in chapters:
When we pick up the book and we start reading, the first ‘’character’’ that appears is the boat Neally. This introduction is very significant if we want to understand the journey that Marlow did.
As we can read: ‘’It seems to be a …show more content…
Darkness represents, once again, ideas such as evil, madness, and depravity.
As we can read in the end of Heart Of Darkness: ’’The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness’’.
From the other side, this contrast between black and white could be compared with the chinese Ying-Yang (a balance and harmony) or with the differences of skin colour between Europeans and Africans: these ones were underrated and seen as animals. ‘’A quarrelsome band of footsore sulky niggers trod on the heels of the donkey; a lot of tents, camp–stools, tin boxes, white cases, brown bales would be shot down in the courtyard, and the air of mystery would deepen a little over the muddle of the station.’’
They were used as slaves and, when Marlow came for the first time to Africa, he saw black people dying and he didn’t matter.
To sum up, Joseph Conrad, one of the most important anglophone writters, has shown his skills when it comes to create a new world based of the reality in his days. Is a different language he learned when he was a kid, Conrad knew how to give his readers an importal moral in Heart Of
It is considered to be one of the most difficult books to understand because the quantity of symbols that dull the reading. During the story, there are a lot of details we have to consider and think about them as messages the writter wanted to reflect. Let’s divide it in chapters:
When we pick up the book and we start reading, the first ‘’character’’ that appears is the boat Neally. This introduction is very significant if we want to understand the journey that Marlow did.
As we can read: ‘’It seems to be a …show more content…
Darkness represents, once again, ideas such as evil, madness, and depravity.
As we can read in the end of Heart Of Darkness: ’’The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness’’.
From the other side, this contrast between black and white could be compared with the chinese Ying-Yang (a balance and harmony) or with the differences of skin colour between Europeans and Africans: these ones were underrated and seen as animals. ‘’A quarrelsome band of footsore sulky niggers trod on the heels of the donkey; a lot of tents, camp–stools, tin boxes, white cases, brown bales would be shot down in the courtyard, and the air of mystery would deepen a little over the muddle of the station.’’
They were used as slaves and, when Marlow came for the first time to Africa, he saw black people dying and he didn’t matter.
To sum up, Joseph Conrad, one of the most important anglophone writters, has shown his skills when it comes to create a new world based of the reality in his days. Is a different language he learned when he was a kid, Conrad knew how to give his readers an importal moral in Heart Of