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ayah_reads 's review for:
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Second book for my Empire and its Fictions course!
What even was that??? I don't see the critique of Western colonialism?? Is it the "horror" Kurtz is referring to?? The story is still founded on the idea of Africa as savage, "the darkness" even if it messes around it with, so any critique is honestly just so weak?? Africa and Africans are just used as the background to delve into the European psyche, like?? Literary analysis is just all good to forget this dehumanisation. I read this and I think it was always about Europe and its own issues, why do you have to go and bring other countries in to it and be part of the story that justifies colonialism??
The story itself is literally one massive monologue, only saving grace is there a third person narrator but Marlow really just tells this whole story to the men on the boat, like ?? Why are these stories never written in actual narrative form.
What even was that??? I don't see the critique of Western colonialism?? Is it the "horror" Kurtz is referring to?? The story is still founded on the idea of Africa as savage, "the darkness" even if it messes around it with, so any critique is honestly just so weak?? Africa and Africans are just used as the background to delve into the European psyche, like?? Literary analysis is just all good to forget this dehumanisation. I read this and I think it was always about Europe and its own issues, why do you have to go and bring other countries in to it and be part of the story that justifies colonialism??
The story itself is literally one massive monologue, only saving grace is there a third person narrator but Marlow really just tells this whole story to the men on the boat, like ?? Why are these stories never written in actual narrative form.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Colonisation