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A 6 page paper which examines Imperialism in Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Africa and the human mind. It is a story that clearly makes a statement about Imperialism and colonization as well as a novel that speaks of the strengths and weaknesses
possessed by man. There is no doubt that "colonialists changed Africa for ever" and Conrads novel illustrates this more than perhaps any other novel (Dalrymple). The following paper examines Imperialism
within the novel. It is illustrated how the themes of madness and isolation help convey Conrads opinion of Imperialism. Imperialism Within Conrads Heart of Darkness From the very
beginning of this story there is a darkness and that darkness is clearly associated with Marlow going further and further into isolation. At the same time he is seeing reflections
of Imperialism as he becomes more isolated from the civilized, as it is, world of the populated African villages. This is clearly seen in the following excerpt: "Black shapes
crouched, lay, sat between the trees, leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced within the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment,
and despair...The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were not enemies, they were not criminals" (Conrad I). In
this one sees that within the interior of Africa, or as Marlow moves into the interior there are signs of what Imperialism has done to the people, the traditions, and
the lives of people. And it is also clear that the narrator/Conrad does not see this as positive, illustrated in the fact he points out how they were not enemies
or criminals. Marlow is moving into a position of isolation as he moves down the river, and it is clear that evidence of the negative reality of Imperialism is all
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