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Heart of Darkness defends the cultural myths that were prominent throughout the era and reinforces the widespread thinking of British gentleman during the Victorian period. This ideology is seen through the eyes of Marlow, a steamboat captain making his way through the Congo and into the heart of darkness. The continent itself is often blamed for the corruption of men and said to be a place of darkness. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad exposes the racial bias that pervades the thought of western European culture regarding the native people of Africa.
Heart of Darkness often refers to black people as “other. ... The vast darkness of the African jungle further confirms these myths. ... ” The Heart of Darkness is direct in claiming that it is the African landscape, rather than imperialistic European values that “contributed to the making of Kurtz. ...
Conrad portrays Africa and its peoples as darkness and confirms this with the use of imagery in the text to cruelly blame the continent and its citizens with darkness of heart and debasement of its people. ... ” Not only is the African landscape responsible for Kurtz’s wrongs, but it also a place of darkness and evil, a place of paganism, with “the throb of drums, the drone of weird incantations.
Approximate Word count = 913
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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