The main themes in heart of darkness

Abstract EN

Joseph Conrad wrote the novel the heart of darkness in the year 1899.

He started writing this novel with a greatest plot of dominant themes from 1898 and competed the writing in the year 1899 February.

This novella was first published by William Blackwood and Sons and released in Edinburgh on 13th November 1902 (Dominic Davies (2019)).

This novella was rich with dominant themes namely Imperialism, White Man’s Burden, Lack of Truth, Colonization, Exploitation, Racial Discrimination, Alienation and Isolation, Moral Corruption, Violence and Human Greed and Deception.

The novel was written to enlighten the effects of Imperialism and Colonialism with the power of freedom and rationalist thought inherited from his Polish parents of Conrad.

This novel was a predominant work to reveal the dominant themes raised from his inmost heart against the supremacy and racial discrimination demonstrated by the European emperors against the Asian and African people.

This novel has reflected the contemporary political, social and economic conditions of Belgian Congo was witness with x-ray eyes.

X-Ray indicates the external appearance as well as internal feelings.

Heart of Darkness is the book which demonstrate the colonizers dominated the native Africans in the areas of Belgian Congo (Fothergill, Anthony (2003) PP 85-97).