post colonial view of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
>Most of Joseph Conrad's work was based with a sea background as he himself >was a seaman rising from the rank of an ordinary seaman to the position of a >Master Mariner.it was during this period that he undertook a voyage into the >Belgian Congo and the scenario of "HEART OF DARKNESS".In 1888 the world >newspapers were filed with dramatic reports fron the Congo and East >Africa.Arfica affected Conrad profoundly.On his Congo expedition he came up >against the real face of colonialism with its greed and corruption,and the >suffering it caused native populations. Conrad's greatest literary >achievements suggests hia own deep rooted scepticism,his belief that >illusion and reality,truth and self deception are inextricably intertwined. >"Heart Of Darkness" was written basically as a rebuke to the system of >colonising especially the selfish inefficiency while tackling the civilizing >of primitives in this case Africans.This process of civilizing people >actually potrays the evil within the heart of man.Basically the protagonist >in the book Marlow is used to convey these messages quite dramatically.At
>finds the expierence of the jungle more overwelming than anticipated. >all other souls.In the end Marlow hides the very fact from Kurtz's lady-love >conspiracy everywhere.A major theme of "Heart Of Darkness" is civilization >civilization from time immemorial including the Roman civilization suffered >done.Even in conclusion Marlow is incapable of a sensible explanation of the
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