Conrad, like Faulkner, is on the lower level of my favorite classicists. That being cleared, I thought the message was fairly clear: white Britons were just as "savage" in the Victorian age as they were perceived by the Romans centuries before, and just as they saw the African tribal people to be. The Britons and Belgians were barbarous in their treatments of the natives during colonization, despite bringing so-called advancement in humanity to them. It was an anvil that needed to be dropped.
I just read this book in English class and kinda confused as to if I should love it or hate it. But I definitely agree with you about it being anticlimatic, to me it felt like Conrad just spent all that time building up to something and just sort of let it flop...
Ah my boyfriend would commend you. He hated that book!
I remember being somewhat confused because Heart of Darkness what about the Darkness of slavery, racism, etc. However the narrator himself was a little back and forth about it? Like he wanted us to see how awful it was through the eyes of someone who didn't care.
I didn't care for it much either. All right, it is a darkly written as the subject it's about, and also as tough to get through. I was glad and a bit exhausted when I finished it.
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I remember being somewhat confused because Heart of Darkness what about the Darkness of slavery, racism, etc. However the narrator himself was a little back and forth about it? Like he wanted us to see how awful it was through the eyes of someone who didn't care.
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