Prejudice and Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Racism in the darkness, Joseph Conrad, developed the theme of personal power, personal responsibility and social justice in his book "the heart in the dark." His book contains all the features of a traditional adventure story: mystery, exotic, escape, suspense and casual attack. Chinua Achebe concluded as follows. "On the other hand, Conrad is definitely one of the great stylists of contemporary novels and is a good story of negotiation" (Achebe 252). But Conrad does a wonderful story, but he is also considered racist by some critics.

In this way, Conrad created and developed several themes in the dark, such as light and dark conflicts, the theme of European dominance, and denounced race discrimination. Joseph Conrad certainly has no prejudice. He lives in the form of racial discrimination which seems to be almost a natural age, but I think he is doing it by himself emphasizing the painful struggle of Africans and the cruelty of Europeans I feel there. understood.

In the post colonialism study, especially the Nigerian novelist Chinua Acebbe criticized the center of the dark. In 1975 public speech "African Image: Racial Discrimination in Conrad's Darkness", Ahmed expressed A Conrad's novel as "a book with a hatred and disgust" and made Africa. People have lost their human race. Achebe stated that Conrad's "sneak out of alien phobia ... ..." at the time of publication of this book ignored the artistic achievements of the people living in the Congo River, accidentally bringing Africa to Europe I believe I drew it as the opposite of civilization. . He believes that this book continues to promote prejudice against Africa and continues to promote "to annihilate" some of humanity and it should not be regarded as a wonderful work of art .

Chinua Achebe has challenged Joseph Conrad's novel in his article "The African Image" (1975) and depicts Africa's looting, dark heart (1902). Achebe considers almost acceptably accepted works as "classics" and argues that Conrad is writing "bloody racial discrimination", anger and persistent that brings the perspective of a famous African writer It is an argument. In the introduction of the "Book" (Achebe 319) Signet 's 1997 edition ... Racism is what we have witnessed Many people say that race is not a biological category but a human classification In other words, the difference between races is that it has nothing to do with the genetic characteristics.The race is mainly created by society about the concept and the way to see the face we are not used to Race definition is entirely dependent on word location and time.In American history,