Humanity of the Primitive in Heart of Darkness, Dialect of Modernism and Totem and Taboo

Humanity in primitive human darkness, dialect of modernism, the way totem and taboo society defines themselves is almost negative. "We are not X." Society can not exist in a vacuum; it is unique, so it must be able to define itself based on other groups surrounding it. These definitions must occur at cultural touch points where the two societies gather and reach a stalemate of coexistence. For the European culture from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, this contact place - this new culture defines itself - comes from Africa and comes from "primitive" culture where society is located .

The contemporary image of The Heart of Darkness is clearly opposite to the original image. You can think about modernity in two ways. First of all, being "modern" is not barbarous. In the dark, Africans are often barbarians, but sometimes Europeans are barbarians. The Europeans were once barbarians, and the dark heart had some ambiguity about their identity as Congolese non-barbarians. We also found the boiler on the grass, the mountain of broken drain pipes, and the image of the modernity and failure of the rusted machine parts that Marlow saw at the company's station. The ship got disjointed and there was no rivet to repair. Roads were not built and bricks were not made. "Dark center" In the Congo, the essence of the Industrial Revolution is rotten and it is disappointing to define the most basic structure of the modern world

Through the darkness, Conrad interwoven the dark and ruthless jungle idea with ancient, "primitive" human barbaric meditation. As Marlow noted, a modern "civilized" man walks on the thinnest tightrope in the abyss of his own primitive nature. I will return to the original atavism. In the early days of the story, Marlow reminded other crew members that even familiar Britain was not an old brutal forest.

The most important thing in the primitive culture is that the practice of Totem and Taboo provides us with a particularly prominent manifestation of psychological contradiction - a window that opens the power of human emotions in the earliest times of mankind is. After all, Mr. Freud should consider the first human being to live in a "very large family" like the ancestors of animals, if the decrease of Darwinian apes is correct. A family led woman and a large family of children. These groups have loyalty, affection and danger, but there are other complaints among young men.