Imperialist Heart of Darkness
... were much higher class and more sophisticated at that time. Ultimately though, Conrad presents a mocking humor that may suggest that the Europeans were not as civilized or sophisticated as they thought. The way that Conrad describes the Company’s chief accountant is as a “miracle” (Conrad), he is depicted as a white colored, hardworking, upper class citizen who has devoted himself to the pursuit of imperialism in the Congo. He is totally carefree of the conflicts going on around him, and prefers to focus on his state of well being. Marlow does not even know what he puts himself into in the beginning, but rather his eyes and heart are educated as the novel goes on. The world has always had imperialistic impacts, and Conrad was one of the first writers to realize just how extreme those impacts were becoming. Conrad explicitly and clearly emphasizes his beliefs and experiences with European imperialism in his novel The Heart of Darkness. Within this work he describes a man’s journey (Marlow) into the d...