Top Two Long Questions and Answers from Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

 1.  Make an analysis of the image of the Africans in Heart of Darkness.

Ans: Heart of Darkness explores the issues surrounding imperialism in complicated ways. As Marlow travels from the Outer Station to the Central Station and finally up the river to the Inner Station, he encounters scenes of torture, cruelty, and near-slavery. The novella shows that racial discrimination is quite prevalent in America and other parts of the world. Marlow also explains that if people belonging to a particular race have different complexions, it means that Europeans have the right to take the possession of the land from that race. The Africans have been addressed in human terms like Savages and Brutes throughout the novel. Thus, this novella is, above all, an exploration of hypocrisy, ambiguity, and moral confusion.

Several images throughout Heart of Darkness suggest the futility of European presence in Africa. The first such image Marlow witnesses off the West African coast, where a French warship fires pointlessly at an invisible enemy. Another image appears later, at the Central Station, when Marlow watches...............(Scroll-down to Download Full Answer)

2. What is Darkness in Heart of Darkness? Make an analysis of the discourse of conflict of colonizer and colonized as highlighted in Heart of Darkness.

Ans: Darkness can encompass a primitive chaos, and the powers of that chaos; it is not essentially evil, yet it is largely associated with death and destruction, captivity and spiritual darkness.

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness explores the conflict between colonizers and colonized. Marlow and Kurtz both are representative figures of colonizer who go on African land in the name of civilizing and educating the native people. All the ignorant native people who indirectly are influenced and made dependent towards European are colonized.

The colonizers are trying their best to colonize the people economically, socially, politically and mentally in different areas. Colonizers use different ways to colonize the people. In Heart of Darkness the very important action is the intention of collecting Ivory. Ivory symbolizes the white man's greed and the white man's commercial....... .(Scroll down to Download Full Answer)

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