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HEART OF DARKNESS - ANALYSIS - Coggle Diagram
HEART OF DARKNESS
- ANALYSIS
THE CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM:
European powers destroyed
the
Congo
for
ivory
money
lie to the word
by claming
civilization
education
The Attitude of the White Colonists
Africans as objects, slaves, or simple parts of the landscape
justification:
supposed superiority of Western civilization
SAVAGERY VS. CIVILIZATION:
European manners disappear
far form home
inside eveyone
cruelty
darkness
THE SYMBOL OF KURTZ
light and progress
smart and promising man
mad tyrant
for absolute power, greed, and the jungle
MARLOW'S JOURNEY INTO THE SELF
the travel
journey into the human mind
Marlow discovers terrifying truths about human nature
THE MEANING OF THE FINAL LIE:
Marlow lies to Kurtz's girfriend
to protect
her
from the cruel truth
showing
his complete disillusionment and alienation from
ignorant
Western society
CRITICISM ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR
The Major Literary Controversy:
Marlow
criticizes colonial cruelty
and
white greed
but he showes
language
and
prejudices typical of a late-19th-century
European man
he frequently reduces
native people to shadows or creatures lacking individual voices.
accusations of racism against Conrad
the novel
reduces Africa to a primitive "background"
the novel
dehumanizes Black people
using them as mirrors for the psychological dramas of the white man.