>Most of Joseph Conrad's work was based with a sea background as he himself
             >was a seaman rising from the rank of an ordinary seaman to the position of a
             >Master Mariner.it was during this period that he undertook a voyage into the
             >Belgian Congo and the scenario of "HEART OF DARKNESS".In 1888 the world
             >newspapers were filed with dramatic reports fron the Congo and East
             >Africa.Arfica affected Conrad profoundly.On his Congo expedition he came up
             >against the real face of colonialism with its greed and corruption,and the
             >suffering it caused native populations. Conrad's greatest literary
             >achievements suggests hia own deep rooted scepticism,his belief that
             >illusion and reality,truth and self deception are inextricably intertwined.
             >"Heart Of Darkness" was written basically as a rebuke to the system of
             >colonising especially the selfish inefficiency while tackling the civilizing
             >of primitives in this case Africans.This process of civilizing people
             >actually potrays the evil within the heart of man.Basically the protagonist
             >in the book Marlow is used to convey these messages quite dramatically.At
             >the same time,the value of such a figure as Marlow goes beyond the role of
             >point of view in the story.His character in his own right is involved in the
             >action and transformed by it."Heart Of Darkness" is the account of a journey
             >from journey from the river Thames called the "Gateway To Civilization",to
             >Congo the land of savagery.The symbolism of both the river's is very
             >significant,one a pathway to light and the other a pathway to darkness hence
             >the phrase Africa "The Dark Continent".Marlow's first observation of the
             >natives is with a slight racial overtone as he describes the darkness of
             >their shins and compares them to moving "ants".This I presume is that Marlow
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