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Patrick Brantlinger's Heart Of Darkness For Conrad

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Patrick Brantlinger criticizes Heart of Darkness for Conrad being incredibly ambiguous with his writing, thus creating an opening for many interpretations of his book. Consequently, it will not be truly known what Conrad’s political stance upon imperialism as a whole, however, Conrad’s use of anti-sematic language does show that he was influenced by the political climate in England at the time. Furthermore, “But the facts of exploitation in the Congo are perhaps less distressing to them than the lying idealism which disguises it,” thus, Brantlinger believes that Conrad was less worried about the impacts of the Congolese, but the lying propaganda that flooded Europe during the scramble to Africa (307). Also, “But the difficulty with this ingenious
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