![]() ![]() Concerning this issue, Heart of Darkness casts light upon the ideology of imperialism. These people were regarded and treated as something miserable, not worth respecting they were the savages to who civilization should have been brought. He calls Africa the Dark Continent, and it is not only due to the color of the skin of the biggest part of its population. The author critically opposes the material and inner darkness of the British and the Africans. ![]() The story is full of terrifying details of aborigine life and depiction of colonial oppression. The biggest part of the novella is dedicated to Marlow’s traveling across the tropic river in search of the ivory collector. Back then, his main task consisted in finding one of the company’s agents, the ivory collector named Kurtz. This novel presents a framed narration, or a story within another story Marlow, the main character, tells about his trip to Central Africa to his colleagues. It is named from this perspective that Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness written in 1899 can be considered. ![]() This period can be characterized by rejecting the past and viewing the world from the postcolonial perspectives (Lawall 1621). Joseph Conrad created his works in the period of Modernism and Modernity. ![]()
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