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A 3 page paper which examines the duality of human nature in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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story of the dark side of humanity, searching for ones identity, struggling with realities in the world, racial inequality, oppression, greed, and many other topics. In one respect Conrads novel
offers perspectives of duality in relationship to the numerous possible themes in the novel. The following paper examines the duality of human nature in Heart of Darkness. Heart
of Darkness: Duality The main character of Marlow, in Heart of Darkness, is a man who presumes to have higher ideals than the man he is pursuing, Kurtz. He is,
in many ways, incredibly representative of the colonial attitude of the English, and also very representative of the social and spiritual consciousness of the English people. At the time this
novel was written the western people were fascinated with the notion of evolution and the dark side of human nature. But, at the same time they were insistent that human
beings, primarily civilized and white people, were better than animals. In looking at the time period one author notes, "A marked premise of nineteenth-century ideology, generating more colonial rhetoric,
is the superiority of the white races in the evolutionary scheme to the primitive or savage" (Elbarbary 113). This is seen throughout the text, although Marlow apparently moves closer to
understanding that perhaps all humanity possesses this inherently dark nature. In one excerpt from the novel one can see this strong duality that involves white and black, civilized and
uncivilized as it involves human nature. At one point Marlow is witnessing a boat pass by that was manned by black men. He states, "You could see from afar the
white of their eyeballs glistening. They shouted, sang; their bodies streamed with perspiration; they had faces like grotesque masks--these chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense
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