is most accurate, it creates difficulties for authors to fuse their themes into the story. This pointed out an increase of symbolism in realist works. The objects and descriptions within the narrative are the author’s tools for displaying the values and themes of the work. However, as the author progresses deeper through his journey into the Inner Station, light and darkness symbols are inspire with special meanings which are contradictory to what they usually mean to readers. This study, focuses
's Heart of Darkness at the University of Massachusetts. Achebe affirmed that Heart of Darkness was not intended to offend or hurt anyone but had turned Africa into the “setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor; and also his racism in the novella is responsible for “….the dehumanization of Africa and Africans which this age-long attitude has fostered and continues to foster in the world.”(Achebe, Chinua.”An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Heart of
The theme of color in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a symbolic narrative about the journey of a white man down into the interiors of Africa. Symbolism plays a significant role in the advancement of themes in heart of Darkness. The novel has a simple plot; however, the multiple symbols used in the narrative have enriched the themes of the novel. Colors are among the important symbols that assist in the development of the themes. Colors such as white, black, red, yellow
were often rendered as superstitions; the differences in the social and political arena were seen as chaos. Achebe was guided in writing “Things Fall Apart” as a sharp criticism of European descriptions of Africa in literature such as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness which documented the African natives from the imperialists’ point of view. The colonisers considered themselves as the agents of enlightenment for the primitives who they considered didn’t have a well-founded civilisation of their own