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4 pages in length. To say Joseph Conrad had a forthright objective when penning his celebrated Heart of Darkness is to acknowledge how the author utilized his literary prowess to expose a threatening component of an otherwise civilized human race. The time Conrad spent in the Congo opened his eyes to the pervasiveness of economic imperialism to such a degree that he was compelled to stage the public critique that took place at the turn of the twentieth century within the pages of his renowned novel, a bleak episode in Africa's history that was not entirely collaborative with Jules Ferry's claims. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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prowess to expose a threatening component of an otherwise civilized human race. The time Conrad (2004) spent in the Congo opened his eyes to the pervasiveness of economic imperialism
to such a degree that he was compelled to stage the public critique that took place at the turn of the twentieth century within the pages of his renowned novel,
a bleak episode in Africas history that was not entirely collaborative with Jules Ferrys (1897) claims of how "the superior races have a right because they have a duty.
They have the duty to civilize the inferior races" (p. 1). Conrad (2004) follows Ferrys (1897) argument only as far as to the
end of the first sentence where he empathically places a punctuation mark of anticolonist dissent with regard to economic imperialism being beneficial to both Europeans and Africans. Unearthing evidence
of this difference of opinion is as simple as pointing to the manner by which King Leopold, who "found a number of tools at his disposal that had not been
available to empire builders of earlier times" (Hochschild, 1999, p. 73), possessed cunning and innovation like no other before him; with the sole objective to amass a fortune while at
the same time rule with an iron fist, author Adam Hochschild (1999) illustrates how one of the kings most prized tools for achieving his objectives were in the form of
human beings - the gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory and rubber, only to turn
around with nothing more than a collection of firearms and soldiers spoke to the vast amount of slave laborers he employed as a means by which to load his seaworthy
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