i am making a research about Joseph Conrad heart od Darkness in the light of the Freudian Psychanalitic theary if someone could help me with something .... u are welcome
@DeepRoyal88 He viewed blacks, at least in HD, as savages that were slaves to their pleasures. They are used as a metaphor for that ancient darkness that still lurks inside men's hearts; and these native Africans are pure in that sense. Civilization has not reached them to help them repress those natures for a greater good.
@Fas6pa I disagree. I think he viewed human beings as savages that were slaves to their pleasures, both black and white. What about Kurtz? Was he able to repress his nature for a greater good during his stay in Congo?
@Fas6pa - You're racist, you know? you're from USA, am i right? i'm from Poland. do i have to spell correctly, write perfectly in english, because you're too good to learn foreign languages, and everyone who wants to say something - have to use your language?
whay i think that you're an idiot? simply - you don't understand what Conrad wants to say, and you're boasting it.. try to read and think more. think. THINK. use your brain. and i can understend, that Conrad isn't politically correct. so what? he wants to teach, not insult.
@Fas6pa Please don't judge this great man by modern PC standards. He was a profound man who was shocked and outraged by the treatment of Africans in the Belgian Congo. Does that mean he viewed Africans as his equals? Probably not. But I can tell you, as a person who has traveled widely and associated with all manner of peoples - most people are, in private anyway, somewhat critical of other races and ethnic groups. And, on some levels, I don't think Joseph Conrad had any equals anyway.
@mielazul He certainly didn't have much of a high opinion of whites. In the book, Marlowe (who isn't the narrator of course), disliked the white people in the congo. He was quite cynical, amirite?
@NeverAloneForever I think he had a dark outlook, but I also think he sympathized with peoples' efforts to try to impose a personal meaning on what seems like a meaningless impersonal universe. So I don't think I would use the word "cynical," which to me connotes a kind of unsympathetic contempt. But I know what you mean, and I appreciate the response. Sorry to nitpick with the words.
@mielazul I see what you mean. Then again, I think I should have put 'cynical' into context. I meant that he expressed cynicism towards some 'commonly' known as positive views. Particularily, his detached attitude. Of course, it's good that he brings this point of view to light. He was one of the first modernist writers, as I know. With anti-heroic characters and all.
i am making a research about Joseph Conrad heart od Darkness in the light of the Freudian Psychanalitic theary if someone could help me with something .... u are welcome
imroweh 1 year ago
@WineBeerLover Have you read "Heart of Darkness"?
Fas6pa 1 year ago
@Fas6pa Chinua Achebe called him a racist.. do ou agree with him? And why?
DeepRoyal88 1 year ago
@DeepRoyal88 He viewed blacks, at least in HD, as savages that were slaves to their pleasures. They are used as a metaphor for that ancient darkness that still lurks inside men's hearts; and these native Africans are pure in that sense. Civilization has not reached them to help them repress those natures for a greater good.
So I think he was a racist, in the modern sense.
Fas6pa 1 year ago
@Fas6pa I disagree. I think he viewed human beings as savages that were slaves to their pleasures, both black and white. What about Kurtz? Was he able to repress his nature for a greater good during his stay in Congo?
hermenegildo911 3 months ago
Great guy with vision
ZAOUWV 1 year ago
Run away to France from Russian conscription.
trzcinarowice 1 year ago
This man was racist
Fas6pa 1 year ago
@Fas6pa ???
trzcinarowice 1 year ago
@Fas6pa and you're an idiot. so and so that it is eaven imposible to explain. try to read and think more. oh, and in modern sense - you're an idiot.
Szyszeczka1 1 year ago
@Szyszeczka1 Says the moron that can't even spell correctly. Move along, troll.
Fas6pa 1 year ago
@Fas6pa - You're racist, you know? you're from USA, am i right? i'm from Poland. do i have to spell correctly, write perfectly in english, because you're too good to learn foreign languages, and everyone who wants to say something - have to use your language?
nice argument, huh?
Szyszeczka1 1 year ago
@Szyszeczka1 Nawet nie próbujesz zrozumieć o czym oni piszą
Nototu 7 months ago
@Fas6pa
whay i think that you're an idiot? simply - you don't understand what Conrad wants to say, and you're boasting it.. try to read and think more. think. THINK. use your brain. and i can understend, that Conrad isn't politically correct. so what? he wants to teach, not insult.
oh, and sorry for my english. it's poor ;)
Szyszeczka1 1 year ago
@Fas6pa Please don't judge this great man by modern PC standards. He was a profound man who was shocked and outraged by the treatment of Africans in the Belgian Congo. Does that mean he viewed Africans as his equals? Probably not. But I can tell you, as a person who has traveled widely and associated with all manner of peoples - most people are, in private anyway, somewhat critical of other races and ethnic groups. And, on some levels, I don't think Joseph Conrad had any equals anyway.
mielazul 9 months ago 3
@mielazul He certainly didn't have much of a high opinion of whites. In the book, Marlowe (who isn't the narrator of course), disliked the white people in the congo. He was quite cynical, amirite?
NeverAloneForever 3 weeks ago
@NeverAloneForever I think he had a dark outlook, but I also think he sympathized with peoples' efforts to try to impose a personal meaning on what seems like a meaningless impersonal universe. So I don't think I would use the word "cynical," which to me connotes a kind of unsympathetic contempt. But I know what you mean, and I appreciate the response. Sorry to nitpick with the words.
mielazul 3 weeks ago
@mielazul I see what you mean. Then again, I think I should have put 'cynical' into context. I meant that he expressed cynicism towards some 'commonly' known as positive views. Particularily, his detached attitude. Of course, it's good that he brings this point of view to light. He was one of the first modernist writers, as I know. With anti-heroic characters and all.
NeverAloneForever 3 weeks ago
Excellent excerpt.
useahammer 2 years ago
This was GREAT
sekouche 2 years ago
"The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience."
Conrad on the Belgian Congo
rationibus 2 years ago 7
same can be said about Wall Street today, eh?
rigoletto68 2 years ago 6