How you ever heat to somebody of your family? A commun questions: Is Joseph Conrad’s short novel, Heart Of Darkness, a result of an epiphany that he had during his Congo river adventures?, is Joseph Conrad communicating a message of hypocrisy behind
the imperialism that occurred in Africa during the nineteenth century? and does it question the integrity of the British
Empire?, possibly so. Considering that people of the Victorian age believed that their way of life was the only way to
live and imperialism was doing a benefit for Africa, contradicts the events that take place in the Heart Of Darkness;
including, a compelling letter concerning the issue of imperialism that reflects anguish towards the atrocities done in
the African …show more content…
Once ventured into the African Congo, the hidden truth about the “mission of civility” of the so-called
imperialism, begins to surface. Marlow descriptively discusses is instinctive feeling about his surroundings of
the African Congo, “When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the
reality-the reality I tell you-fades. The inner truth is hidden-luckily, luckily” (Conrad 34). Here, Marlow is
expressing the realization that reality is not what it appears to be; that the understanding, or “truth”
of his surroundings, is yet to be discovered.
Throughout the Heart Of Darkness, Marlow is in a symbolic and a significant search of Kurtz, the Trade
Company manager; due to the implications that Kurtz is a personification of European imperialism. As
mentioned in the description of Kurtz, “The original Kurtz had been educated partly in England and- as
the imperialism that occurred in Africa during the nineteenth century? and does it question the integrity of the British
Empire?, possibly so. Considering that people of the Victorian age believed that their way of life was the only way to
live and imperialism was doing a benefit for Africa, contradicts the events that take place in the Heart Of Darkness;
including, a compelling letter concerning the issue of imperialism that reflects anguish towards the atrocities done in
the African …show more content…
Once ventured into the African Congo, the hidden truth about the “mission of civility” of the so-called
imperialism, begins to surface. Marlow descriptively discusses is instinctive feeling about his surroundings of
the African Congo, “When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the
reality-the reality I tell you-fades. The inner truth is hidden-luckily, luckily” (Conrad 34). Here, Marlow is
expressing the realization that reality is not what it appears to be; that the understanding, or “truth”
of his surroundings, is yet to be discovered.
Throughout the Heart Of Darkness, Marlow is in a symbolic and a significant search of Kurtz, the Trade
Company manager; due to the implications that Kurtz is a personification of European imperialism. As
mentioned in the description of Kurtz, “The original Kurtz had been educated partly in England and- as