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Heart Of Darkness Passage Analysis

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A passage in Heart of Darkness tells about one man who is allowed to steal a horse and another who is not. The horse symbolizes the riches of the world. The horse represents ivory, gold, vegetation, anything of value that comes from the earth. The man who is allowed to take the reserves of the world are the first world countries like Belgium or Great Britain.Those countries are morally free to take what they want from anywhere. That fact is the bottom line of imperialism. The other man, representing less developed countries, is not allowed to even look upon the greatness of the world’s resources - even if the resources are his. The first-world countries take the reserves. They steal the horse. They might know how to “ride” it, how to use the
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