Darkness In Heart Of Darkness

To
answer this, we need to come to an understanding of the Western attitude of Conrad's period
regarding the colonial empires that had been established.

One often hears
Africa described in the European mindset as the "dark continent." Despite the slave
trade and exploitation of Africa that had been going on for several hundred years, Europeans
still, by the end of the nineteenth century, knew little, if anything, about the interior of
Africa. In , the disappearance ofdeep within the unnamed country of's visit
is emblematic of this mystery the Western mind had nurtured...