Heart Of Darkness
The novel Heart of Darkness contrasts the appearance of African “savagery” with European “civility” , although the natives are referred to as savages in the novel the Europeans have proved that they poses very similar qualities therefore making them seem as somewhat equals, However the natives have shown more restraint.
The importance of restraint is stressed throughout Heart of Darkness Marlow is in essence saved by restraint. He keeps on track, when he is confronted with the ultimate evil where a man "must fall back on (his) own innate strength, upon (his) own capacity for faithfulness," he is able to do so.
The cannibals some of those ignorant millions, are almost totally
characterized by restraint." They outnumber the whites "thirty to five"
and could easily fill their starving bellies. Marlow "would have as soon
expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a
battlefield." The cannibals action is "one of those human secrets that
baffle probability." comments Marlow as he questions why the hungry cannibals aboard his steamer hadn't gone for the white crew members (Conrad 43). "The glimpse of the steamboat . . . filled those savages with unrestrained grief," Marlow explains after
one of the most evident comparisons is between the Natives and the European people. Although the natives are referred to as savages throughout the entire novel the Europeans have proved to have just as many savage qualities therefore making them somewhat equals in this novel. However the natives showed a little more restraint than the white people.
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The native people of Africa are referred to as savages throughout the entire novel. The white people in the novel proved they had as many savage qualities in the novel as the natives had.
The white people treated the natives like animals. They fired their guns into the jungle at the...
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