Joseph Conrad develops themes of personal power, individual responsibility, and
             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 society
             conformed to it. Conrad probably would have been criticized as being soft hearted rather
             Conrad constantly referred to the natives, in his book, as black savages, niggers,
             brutes, and "them", displaying ignorance toward the African history and racism towards
             the African people. Conrad wrote, "Black figures strolled out listlessly... the beaten nigger
             groaned somewhere" (Conrad 28). "They passed me with six inches, without a glance,
             with the complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages" (Conrad 19). Achebe, also,
             detected Conrad's frequent use of unorthodox name calling, "Certainly Conrad had a
             problem with niggers. His in ordinate love of that word itself shou
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