Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness - A Modernist Novel

Joseph Conrad's Dark Heart - Modernist Modernism Modernism began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artists came to be limited by the style and custom of the Renaissance. Therefore, modernism appears in various ways from Impressionism to Cubism. In order to explore the place of new creation, the modernist modified the reality perception. In the Renaissance, the depiction of the theme was very easy. The picture must look like what it represents.

The dark heart of Joseph Conrad is a good example of a modernist novel because it penetrates the general "darkness" of the whole novel. The language used to describe settings and important scenes is very thick and ambiguous. There are lots of words in the novel: incredible, unbelievable, melancholy - ...... On the surface, Wickham is like a gentle gentleman. And his true nature is revealed in the process of the novel. Wickham was originally thought to be the victim of a cruelty and fraud of Darcy, and a considerate person. He used his own opinion to approach Benitez and eventually ran with Lydia. After Darcy told Elizabeth about the real nature of Wickham, she hardly believed how he would be such a bad person.

Joseph Conrad's novel "The Heart of Darkness" covers many topics and concepts, including the essence of human nature and its complexity. The novel is in two different places, the Thames and the Congo. Conrad used these two rivers to express different cultures of this novel, "civilization" and "barbarity". When exploring these two different worlds, Conrad reveals the heart of mankind through the characters of this novel and proves that everything is not straightforward and straightforward. The Thames river in southern England represents the advanced world of Europe

In his novel "Inside the darkness" Joseph Conrad reveals the evil lurking in the human soul; however, this corruption is hidden from innocent European women. Conrad 's novel plainly depicts a black and white lady. For the benefit of society some innocent Caucasian European women must misunderstand, the opposition to the black African-beast-civilized order. The dark heart of Joseph Conrad is not just a quest for the harsh reality of African colonialism in the second half of the 19th century. In fact, as a negative portrayal to his women suggests, it is full of symbolism. Conrad picked his words very well, because prejudice against his woman can be easily identified. For him, women are just soft, delicate, innocent