Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is quite a famous book about a man’s voyage up the Congo River in Africa. The book was criticized by many notable people of the early twentieth century since it was a direct assault on the grim realities of imperialism and racism carried out by European countries on the defenseless African states. At the river Thames on an anchored boat, Marlow, a tangible protagonist, recounts his story about the experience and endurance he went through in Africa. Marlow on boards a French steamship destined for Africa. Having spent thirty days in the sea, he gets down at a huge river basin. He has to travel another two hundred miles to reach the company’s central station where he has to pilot the steamboat up in the Congo River. Next, he catches a small steamboat that departs him after thirty miles; to his luck there he finds the company’s outer station. While staying there in a hut he observes the horrible status of native people – they are into...
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