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Racism

Slavery has been with us since the Egyptian times and with it prejudice

towards certain humans have also come about. In Conrad's Heart of Darkness

these prejudice feelings are reflected throughout the story by the characters

and their descriptions. The main character, Marlow shows much prejudice

feelings towards the native black slaves by much of his descriptions and

actions towards them.



One of the most noticeable prejudice descriptions that Marlow gives to us

is in the way in which Marlow describes the Themes River in two different

positions. He first describes the river as being a place where many people

seek to follow their dreams. In a way, his descriptions are like a great

fantasy with great feelings of serenity and full of liveliness. This

description of the river also contained many words of color; this Marlow

rarely uses to describe events. The description of the river going upstream

was extremely different from the......


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