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senneca 's review for:
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
“The glimpse of the steamboat had for some reason filled those savages with unrestraint grief.” - page 53
That question - to me - catches the tragedy of “Heart of Darkness”. It encapsulates Conrad’s powers of perception and apprehension, but also his failure to realise that the answer lies at the core of that very question. How he recognises the horror, the horror, but can’t understand where the root of that evil lies, simply because he was a child of his time.
Ultimately, he’s saying: “don’t be racist like thát, be racist like me.”
PS. There is also a textbook example of gay panic on page 69.
That question - to me - catches the tragedy of “Heart of Darkness”. It encapsulates Conrad’s powers of perception and apprehension, but also his failure to realise that the answer lies at the core of that very question. How he recognises the horror, the horror, but can’t understand where the root of that evil lies, simply because he was a child of his time.
Ultimately, he’s saying: “don’t be racist like thát, be racist like me.”
PS. There is also a textbook example of gay panic on page 69.