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Reivew of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, is an intriguing and extremely
disturbing portrayal of man's surrender to his carnal nature when all
external trappings of "civilization" are removed. This novel excellently
portrays the shameful ways in which the Europeans exploi ....
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.... natives as forced labor
for their benefit--the classic definition of slavery.
Europeans were also extremely distrustful of the natives. They
were often accused of crimes because of the color of their skin. At the
beginning of the novel, a French ship is firing blindly into the woods
because "[apparently] the French had one of their wars going on
thereabouts." Later in the novel, at the Central Station, a native is
accused of causing the fire that engulfed the European's storage shed. He
is beaten savagely; later he ran away from the station.
The Europeans, aside ....
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