Some critics argue that Conrad is exposing colonialism in his novel, one of those critics is H. S. Zins who claims that:" when Conrad was writing his anti–colonial and anti–imperial Heart of Darkness. In that African novella he described imperialism as robbery with violence" (1). This is true when he describes the Belgian colonization of Africa, but when he describes the British colonization he praises it and celebrating imperialism. Said in his book Culture and Imperialism states that: "Yet neither Conrad nor Marlow gives us a full view of what is outside the world – conquering attitudes… By that I mean that Heart of Darkness works so effectively because its politics and aesthetics are, so to speak, imperialist" (24).
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8). This means that Africa has no history and no population as he says, only a blank space. Before that he justifies colonialism by saying that it is the idea which matters: "What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea" (7). And the way you do it, is for the sake of civilization and you should sacrifice for this noble aim. Then this celebration becomes bigger or has a wider angle, when Marlow arrives to the Congo, the Africans, according to him, have no language; it is: "a violent babble of uncouth sounds" (22). It is only some kind of meaningless sounds that they produce. So, those Africans who have no history, not civilized and have no language must be colonized and dominated by Europeans who are civilized, have language to communicate with each other, and of course they have …show more content…
Chinua Achebe states that:
I am talking about a book which parades in the most vulgar fashion prejudices and insults from which a section of mankind has suffered untold agonies and atrocities in the past and continues to do so in many ways and many places today. I am talking about a story in which the very humanity of black people is called in question. (1791)
Achebe in the end of his essay confesses that may be Conrad "condemned the evil of imperial exploitation" (1794) but in his unconscious, he was unaware that he praises racism and strengthen it. And, as Achebe states, the victim of this racism, the Africans, suffer for centuries from this awful racism and dehumanizing of Africans in Conrad's novel
On one hand, Camus's …show more content…
8). This means that Africa has no history and no population as he says, only a blank space. Before that he justifies colonialism by saying that it is the idea which matters: "What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea" (7). And the way you do it, is for the sake of civilization and you should sacrifice for this noble aim. Then this celebration becomes bigger or has a wider angle, when Marlow arrives to the Congo, the Africans, according to him, have no language; it is: "a violent babble of uncouth sounds" (22). It is only some kind of meaningless sounds that they produce. So, those Africans who have no history, not civilized and have no language must be colonized and dominated by Europeans who are civilized, have language to communicate with each other, and of course they have …show more content…
Chinua Achebe states that:
I am talking about a book which parades in the most vulgar fashion prejudices and insults from which a section of mankind has suffered untold agonies and atrocities in the past and continues to do so in many ways and many places today. I am talking about a story in which the very humanity of black people is called in question. (1791)
Achebe in the end of his essay confesses that may be Conrad "condemned the evil of imperial exploitation" (1794) but in his unconscious, he was unaware that he praises racism and strengthen it. And, as Achebe states, the victim of this racism, the Africans, suffer for centuries from this awful racism and dehumanizing of Africans in Conrad's novel