Joaquim Etienne raises many good points in his most recent
blog post: ‘”Heart of Darkness”- Marlow the rebel.” He discusses the elemental beliefs of
Europeans and Englanders at the time the novel was written and today. It is interesting to see how he remarks
racism in England and the connection that that has with the characters in the
novel. Joaquim, do you think that Marlow
is actually being a racist? It is my
impression that he believes that the mistreatment of the “black people” is many
times cruel and that those nations are only inferior in theory but not as a
united people. What are your thoughts on
this? Do you think that this part of the
novel includes irony and sarcasm so as to hint to the reader that Conrad is a
rebel in himself because he criticizes the norm?
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