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Heart Of Darkness Imperialism

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Joseph Conrad was another man who had witnessed King Leopold's atrocities in the congo. Ever since he was a boy, he had a fascination about venturing Africa. But his mind was immediately changed when he was employed to be a steamboat captain in Africa. After that he then change his thoughts about human natures. He then wrote the book "Heart of Darkness" where he put all his knowledge into. The story is about a man named Marlow who goes to the Congo and meets Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz was a successful agent who has made money from ivory, but he has gone native.
To start, Hochschild says that the "Heart of Darkness is one of the most scathing indictments of imperialism in all literature," yet he says that Conrad was very passionate about imperialism.
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