Heart Of Darkness Research Paper

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Joel Cohen and Kevin Stiles 1B 9/28/15 Prompt B Partner Essay “Heart of Darkness”, by Joseph Conrad, follows the first hand account of a man, Marlow, who went into The Congo to rescue the manager of an ivory harvesting station, Mr. Kurtz, who had become fatally ill. In the novel, the relationship between the native people and the white Europeans who enter their land is very important. Many of the Europeans are racist and see the natives not as people but as barbaric black animals. Marlow, however, is different; he sees them very much as people and as a result is sympathetic to their living conditions and the oppression the Europeans have put on them, although his view of them is slightly tainted by his white European background. From the

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