Conrad's Heart of Darkness
A Vision of Racism When new literature is written it is often scrutinized in many ways by many people. A well written book, such as the “Heart of Darkness”, will be analyzed and people’s opinions will begin to surface, as they find different ways of thinking. The book Heart of Darkness has been called many things, a novel for the histories, a grand spectacle of the ages, and racist? The point of racism has been debated by people far and wide, and most people have their own opinion. The point is, Conrad is not a racist, his work is simply a firm statement pointed not at the so called "inferior people" as somebody perceived it, but instead at how people will go into their baser forms when striped of a moral authority that keeps them in check. People may resist it, but eventually they will surrender to that primal urge, and enter the Heart of Darkness. Marlow's story is spoken through one of his audience members, as they wait for the tide on the Thames River. Marlow's tale takes them into a different world, a world that hasn't grown past the beginning of time, and instead is still without a …show more content…
Africa was a place of sacrifice, and witch doctors were abundant. Marlow never lies about what he saw, don't look at Africa now, and how we look at racism now, it would make an inaccurate portrait of what really happened. The people are very rarely spoken of as black, but instead they are referred to as "the savages" and he refers to Africa as "the wilderness" he doesn’t want to just refer to Africans as savages, or just Africa as a wilderness, it's the wilderness that’s the darkness, it's people who are the savages (48), (59). Marlow speaks about the kinship between both Europeans and Africans, and says that it is strange, shows in a sense he feels connected to them, that they are one in the
A Vision of Racism When new literature is written it is often scrutinized in many ways by many people. A well written book, such as the “Heart of Darkness”, will be analyzed and people’s opinions will begin to surface, as they find different ways of thinking. The book Heart of Darkness has been called many things, a novel for the histories, a grand spectacle of the ages, and racist? The point of racism has been debated by people far and wide, and most people have their own opinion. The point is, Conrad is not a racist, his work is simply a firm statement pointed not at the so called "inferior people" as somebody perceived it, but instead at how people will go into their baser forms when striped of a moral authority that keeps them in check. People may resist it, but eventually they will surrender to that primal urge, and enter the Heart of Darkness. Marlow's story is spoken through one of his audience members, as they wait for the tide on the Thames River. Marlow's tale takes them into a different world, a world that hasn't grown past the beginning of time, and instead is still without a …show more content…
Africa was a place of sacrifice, and witch doctors were abundant. Marlow never lies about what he saw, don't look at Africa now, and how we look at racism now, it would make an inaccurate portrait of what really happened. The people are very rarely spoken of as black, but instead they are referred to as "the savages" and he refers to Africa as "the wilderness" he doesn’t want to just refer to Africans as savages, or just Africa as a wilderness, it's the wilderness that’s the darkness, it's people who are the savages (48), (59). Marlow speaks about the kinship between both Europeans and Africans, and says that it is strange, shows in a sense he feels connected to them, that they are one in the