THE HEART OF DARKNESS
The author
Criticism of European colonisation
Narrative technique
Interpretations of the novel
Contrast between darkness and whiteness
Main theme
Colonisers corrupted by the desire of power
Natives enslaved and dehumanised
Interpretations of the journey
journey inside the cosciousness
journey of the mythical hero
geographical explorations
journey to the origins of humanity
Marlow
Frame narrator
anticolonial novel
allegory of colonisation
moral story
parable of western history of domination
Joseph Corad was born in Poland in 1857
He worked as a seaman and he travelled a lot
His life on the sea was a source of inspiration for his books