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social justice in his book Heart of Darkness. His book has all the trappings of the
conventional adventure tale - mystery, exotic setting, escape, suspense, and unexpected attack.
China Achebe concluded, "Conrad, on the other hand, is undoubtedly one of the great
stylists of modern fiction and a good story-teller into the bargain" (Achebe 252). Yet,
despite Conrad's great story telling, he has also been viewed as a racist by some of his
critics. Achebe, Singh, and Sarvan, although their criticisms differ, are a few to name.
Normal readers usually are good at detecting racism in a book. Achebe
acknowledges Conrad camouflaged racism remarks, saying, "But Conrad chose his subject
well - one which was guaranteed not to put him in conflict with psychological pre-
disposition..." (Achebe, 253). Having gone back and rereading Heart of Darkness, but
this time reading between the lines, I have discovered some racism Conrad felt toward the
natives that I had not discovered the first time I read the book. Racism is portrayed in
Conrad's book, but one must acknowledge that back in the eighteen hundreds socie
. . .
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness 3rd ed. Upon arriving at the first station, Marlow commented what
he observed. [The Colonialistic Bias of Heart of Darkness. Marlow praised the book keeper as if he felt it's the natives'
fault for living in such waste. Marlow felt pity
toward the natives, yet when he met the station's book keeper he changed his views of the
natives. "They howled and
leaped and spun and made horrid faces, but what thrilled you was just the thought of their
humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate
uproar.
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