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Thursday, August 24, 2017

'Symbolism in Heart of Darkness'

'In his novel subject matter of Darkness, Joseph Conrad uses the nature of the congou river as a symbol to sway the chaos and physical body in the amount of money of both the conquerors and the conquered. By using symbolism, Conrad gruelingly explores the overall reputation of the dehumanizing and futile aspects of imperialism. Conrad personifies the river to symbolically reflect the feelings of the mass being conquered. He says the river has a vindictive aspect, that the fountain does not point that the river itself longings visit, but that the Africans desire to take revenge against the cruelty inflicted by the conquerors. In context, the africans fork up a spiteful aspect, since they perceive the impact as a devastating change against their lives due to the mistreatment they receive, because dissenting against the way of the Europeans. Conrad writes about how the river came to be in possession of a profound repulsiveness deep down its life, implying that all the hatred, disgust, vanity, and mischievous feelings in the heart of the Europeans and the Africans figuratively lay in in the river. In effect, the author uses incarnation when Marlow realizes that the river not merely appeared dark but also hopeless, confronting the accompaniment that the obscurity and light cruelty of the plenty involved in imperialism accumulated in their once irreproachable police wagon, making their hearts as deep-set stones so profoundly inside the darkness that it is impossible to bind the damage if imperialism pervades.\nFrom some other perspective, the river symbolizes the loss of godliness as a consequence of imperialisms dehumanization. In a later time, the utterer is shocked by observing that the river and its surroundings are so pitiless, implying that the Europeans have a merciless heart, since they oftentimes see Africans anxious(p) slowly as they make the Africans run low on vile and inhumane conditions. out-of-pocket to imperi alism, the Europeans maltreat the Africans by taki... '

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