Heart Of Darkness By Joseph Conrad Research Paper

Racism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
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Racism is a debatable term among people around the world. The practice of racism is cannot be stopped until this day. There are stiil some racisms occur toward some races, especially in black people race. Literature is one of medium to deliver idea, opinion, feeling or critics. The existence of literary such as novella is a medium to understand the events and problem such as racism that occur in society. The emergence of literary work cannot be separated from the sociological aspect of the author. Joseph Conrad is one of a maritim author who often write literary works based on his experience. One of his literary work is a novella under the
Racism appears when there is no unity between superior and inferior. As stated in Encyclopedia Britannica, racism is theory or idea that is a casual link between inherited physical traits and certain traits of personality, intellect or culture combined with it, the notion that some races are inherently superior to others. Racism begins when Roosevelt’s though who slaughter indigence of America and he stated that this attitudes belong to darwinism theory The origin of Species (1859) states that man’s body structure is the evolution of animals. Theodore Roosevelt also classifies the classes which upper is the white skin and argued that they are good human that have good culture. The black skin is put on the lower class and must die for cleaning human decline. The black skin also classified as people who do not have culture and stupid. According to Feagin (2005) , white-on-black opression is systemic and has persisted over several centuries without the broad and foundational racial transformations that many social analyst suggest should have
Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink kept time with their footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.”

Above quotation explain the torturing toward black people. Black people are treated cruelly. In this story, black people becomes worker for white people. As the worker class, black people are treated unhumane. They must be tortured by working with chain that embitters them. It is a very brutal and misery treatment. This treatment is clearly caused by the rejection of race relation. It can be seen by the absence of white people among tortured people. The actor of this treatment is white people.

Black people that regarded as inferior group are not cared by the superior. The superior only want to get benefit for their existence. The superior never cares about the condition of the inferior. It is another example of discrimination that is also portrayed in Heart of Darkness through this