The Theme of Darkness in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Some people say Conrad is "not the best novelist but he is, of course, the best artist of every novel"; I think this is going against Conrad. The desirable description of the sentence style of "The Heart of Darkness" (1902) is because he draws many language images using expressive words and many place and character image descriptions. Words related to color are widely used throughout the novel.

The two main themes of "heart of darkness" are the contradiction between "reality" and "darkness", and the concept of suppression and whether it is necessary or not. Conrad's article explaining about the control of starvation and cannibalism explains two themes: it describes how reality shapes human behavior and compares the character of Kurz and Marlow. The "reality" used here is defined as "civilized one". Conrad emphasizes the truth, darkness, civilization, primitive, colonization, colonization. I will pierce the heart of the dark. As mentioned above, "real" in this case includes all meanings of civil society.

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 expressed gratitude to the critic who wrote "the heart of darkness". Our relationship of conscious behavior, emotion and opinion which is "the life of our inner subconscious mind" is "to provide", "human" analyzes the aggravation of white anger, he is the European When released from restraint, and in the tropics analyze as a brilliant messenger armed with teeth, you gain trade benefits from the subject race. "(Murfin, p. 97)

The dark heart of Joseph Conrad is a tragic story where white people entered the African jungle. But when we peel off the layers we will find a different journey - we challenge the human soul and complete the beauty of the darkness and the darkness. In this essence, Conrad uses this light and dark theme to contrast the civilized European world with the savage African world in the dark heart. 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 society - some innocent European white women must misunderstand - black African girlfriends - wild beasts - citizen's orderly opposition