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A 3 page paper which discusses
the significance of Joseph Conrad’s use of black and white in the novella “Heart of
Darkness.” No additional sources cited.
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It is a story of an English man who is sent to find a fellow Englishman in the heart of Africa. The man on the journey, Marlow, spends most of
the story hearing about this other man he is in search of, while also discovering the culture and nature of Africa that surrounds him. In this journey we see Conrad
make a great deal of play with the words "black" and "white." The following paper examines some of these instances and discusses the symbolic significance of black and white.
Black and White Aside from the fact that we see a great deal of "black" people and a few "white" people in this story, the use of Conrads wording,
black and white, generally symbolizes the black and white of mans soul, and the black and white of Marlows journey. Marlow finds that much is dark in Africa and that
darkness is a darkness of mankind that seems to kill and destroy all that is white. With that particular perspective in mind we look at one of the first uses
of the word "black." At one point Marlow enters a village: "And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures. A calamity had
come to it, sure enough. The people had vanished. (Conrad Part I). This is a premonition of sorts about what he will eventually find when he finally reaches Kurtz. This
darkness that seems to envelop and destroy people and villages is something that Marlow will learn and this first encounter is warning Marlow of this reality. We are also
given other signs that darkness controls a great deal of what Marlow will see. For example, we see two women that seem to offer the reader, and Marlow, almost a
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