Expectations of Women in "Heart of Darkness"

Beautiful, quiet, devout, innocent. These are the characteristics that men demand for women. Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" refers to this idealistic image. This is because men's expectation for women is so great that they emphasize disappointment. Women are very beautiful creatures, but they also have a kind of heart, soul, and the feeling that they can experience the world. Throughout his book, it is a very masculine writer Conrad, presents the story of a world where men dominate everything, and we found that the use of women is justified.

In the novel "darkness of the heart" of Joseph Conrad, women view of Marlow reflects the typical view of 19th-century women as inferiority complex. There are only three relatively small female characters in "The Heart of Darkness". It is "intention" of Marlow's aunt, Kurzu mistress, and Kurzu. Marlow mentioned these female characters to make the textual aspect of his story more substantial. They definitely play a specific role in the story, but they have nothing to do with the main theme of the story. The theme is, the more focus on whether the journey to the dark heart of Marlowe how the comparison either with their white black "white" soul and "black" soul, and how it leads to self-discovery of Marlow I am in tune.

The true dark heart The dark heart is not just the title of Joseph Conrad 's novel, it is also the theme. This is portrayed by images of different dark, black and evil in his story. This setting is usually used for dark images; even though Marlow talks about him, it is night. This "darkness" exists in many concepts in central Africa, such as Africa, women, black people, maps, ivory trading companies, and Kurzu. Through these images in his journey, Marlow accomplished

Joseph 3 people method of female characters of limiting description and the Marlow of the female character is described in Heart of Darkness of Conrad reflects the recognition of women of women. Marlow's view on women reflects the typical view of women in the 19th century. Women play an important role in the conspiracy of the story, they are quest of darkness the underlying story of the theme, the human soul, does not affect the exploration of Marlow. In a savage black man, this darkness is obvious, but the brutal treatment of blacks by those who call themselves civilized themselves is even more so.