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Monday, January 9, 2017

Symbolism in Heart of Darkness

In his novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad uses the genius of the Congo river as a symbol to express the sanatorium and condition in the centre of both the conquerors and the conquered. By utilise symbolism, Conrad deeply explores the over wholly nucleotide of the dehumanizing and futile aspects of imperialism. Conrad personifies the river to symbolically smooth the feelings of the people being conquered. He says the river has a vengeful aspect, only the author does not intimate that the river itself desires revenge, but that the Africans desire to suffer revenge against the cruelty inflicted by the conquerors. In context, the africans eat up a vengeful aspect, since they perceive the aggression as a crushing alteration against their lives due to the mistreatment they receive, so dissenting against the authority of the Europeans. Conrad writes approximately how the river came to have a gravid duskyness within its marrow squash, implying that all the hatred, disgu st, vanity, and poisonous feelings in the heart of the Europeans and the Africans figuratively accumulated in the river. In effect, the author uses personification when Marlow realizes that the river not only appeared dark but also hopeless, confronting the concomitant that the obscurity and pure cruelty of the people involved in imperialism accumulated in their in one case innocent wagon, making their hearts as sunken stones so deeply inside the tail that it is impossible to fix the maltreat if imperialism pervades.\nFrom another perspective, the river symbolizes the loss of pietism as a solvent of imperialisms dehumanization. In a later time, the speaker is blow out of the water by observing that the river and its environment are so pitiless, implying that the Europeans have a merciless heart, since they frequently see Africans dying behind as they make the Africans run on deplorable and brutal conditions. Due to imperialism, the Europeans maltreat the Africans by tak i...

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