Corruption in Heart of Darkness
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- Created on: 11-06-20 15:24
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- Corruption in 'Heart of Darkness'
- Jean - Jacques Rousseau's 'noble savages' and The Social Contract
- corruption of human soul
- utopian society veiled by forces of avarice and brutality
- constraints of civilisation
- elements of comedy largely undermines/obscure the presence of corruption
- 'exterminate all the brutes'
- Kurtz is regressed to his primitive, uncivilised state
- Kurtz is enigmatic, carrying a torch of civilisation to the primitive nature of Africa
- an unscrupulous, ruthless tyrant
- an archetypal evil genius and degenerate individual
- Kurtz is regressed to his primitive, uncivilised state
- Conrad illustrates the ease with which humanity becomes inhumane without a structured society of civilisation
- 'cold, fog, tempests, disease, exile and death- death skulking in the air, in the water, in the bush'
- prevailing nature of corruption in an imperialist - governed dimension
- masked by the supposed establishment of 'epistemological superiority' and proverbial light
- a growing, yet nonetheless frail, facade of civilisation
- Africa has fallen prey to the imperial pandemic and prevailing corruption
- the natural forces of depravity are rampant, in fact, infective in the setting
- Jean - Jacques Rousseau's 'noble savages' and The Social Contract
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