"The Heart of Darkness" Critique

The dark heart provides answers to the questions human beings have asked for centuries. Really what is inside? How can I control these emotions? Why am I doing this? The author's theory is that the emotions we may not necessarily need are printed on our bodies, no matter how difficult it is to try to conceal it. The difference from his unique way of telling us like this is that this story is very classic. Joseph Conrad uses the foil instead of the usual "anti-hero and hero" plot.

As we have seen, the Heart of Darkness has criticized Congo's economic and social systems which are believed to have been forced by the world's imperialists. Criticism is about individuals (Kurtz, situation of pilgrims ...) and the more global aspects of books. In addition, the heart in the darkness is a bridge between the Victorian values ​​and modernist ideals. Like their predecessors in the Victorian era, this novel depends on traditional heroicism, but is being attacked away from the constantly changing world and from the UK. This book strongly condemns the hypocrisy of imperialism, but it also raises a series of questions surrounding ethnicity.

Beyond the words of the book that made us tense in 1996, we can see that the dark heart is a tough criticism of colonialism. Only when it was suggested that colonialism could not function properly, a dark heart came. This time seems like the highest point of the empire, it is a time when Africa is optimistic about colonialism. However, Conrad was lurking on the floor of "Pax Britannica" whispering as "selling, selling". Imperialism is the central theme of this book, but not just imperialism. Conrad personally explained this in various documents. For example, in a letter from 1899, Conrad wrote that the idea behind "the dark heart" is "efficiency and a purely selfish crime in the solution of African civilization work". In 1902, he wrote to the critic that the center of the darkness is as follows: