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Heart of Darkness
In Joseph Conrad's book Heart of Darkness the Europeans are
cut off from civilization, overtaken by greed, exploitation, and
material interests from his own kind. Conrad develops themes of
personal power, individual responsibility, and social justice. His
book has all the trappings of ....
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their European social orders; they also have been alienated from the
old tribal ways.
"Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be
utterly damned by their greed, their sloth, and their hypocrisy into
moral insignificance, as were the pilgrims, or they may be so corrupt
by their absolute power over the Africans that some Marlow will need
to lay their memory among the 'dead Cats of Civilization.'" (Conrad
105.) The supposed purpose of the Europeans traveling into Africa was
to civ ....
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