Us vs. THEM : a discourse study of register variation in joseph Conrad’s heart of darkness

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This study aims at discussing the registral variations in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

For centuries, white colonizers exploited the black native Africans by destroying their humanity and culture showing them as savages and cannibals.

So, the Africans were shown as struggling with illiteracy and savagery, the white Man was busy with the idea of colonization and fortune.

This study is about the registral variations in the speech of the White Man(US) and that of the African(THEM).

The colonizer- colonized discourse in the novel shows the European thinking of himself to be a civilized human being while the African is shown to be savage and humiliated man.

He is unable to express himself through language.