![]() ![]() Indeed, even the landscape of Africa is described in a way that makes it sound brutish, dark, and evil: “The living trees, lashed together by the creepers and every living bush of the undergrowth, might have been changed into stone, even to the slenderest twig, to the lightest leaf… it seemed unnatural.” Africa is truly meant to be seen as a dark place by the reader of “Heart of Darkness”. To illustrate that these feelings are not simply those of one man, Marlow, note Kurtz’s scribbling, “Exterminate all the brutes,” in reference to the Africans. For example, take into account Marlow’s observation of Africans at the Outer Station: “They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation.” This is obviously not a ringing endorsement of Africa’s populace. This is immediately apparent as soon Marlow’s description of his travels is recounted. ![]() ![]() Little is held back in “Heart of Darkness” in the description of Africa as a backwards, uncivilized place. ![]()
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