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Heart of Darkness: Heart of Controversy
Chinua Achebe believes that Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness is
racist based on Conrad's descriptions of Africa and it's people.
Achebe,
author of Things Fall Apart, stresses Conrad's depiction of Africa as
the
antithesis of Europe and civilization, and the animal imagery present
throughout the novella.
Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 during the period of British
Imperialism, concerns a British trading company and their expedition
into
the Congo for …
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…the African
people at all. It is a story of what was inflicted upon them. It is a
story of man's introspective into himself when there is nowhere else to
turn. It is a story of an obsessed man named Kurtz and what he did for
his
own gain. It is a strikingly accurate account of a historical period
past,
and it should not be regarded today as a hateful spew of racism.
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