Heart of Darkness

gage in colonialistic enterprise" (Singh 270). The Europeans that confounded the natives' customs and practices and took advantage of the natives are the savages in the story-not the black Africans who inhabited the land. Marlow labels imperialism as "not a pretty thing" (Conrad, 21). He describes it further:
             They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind...The conquest of the earth, which mostly means taking it away from those who have a diffe
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