Heart Of Darkness Dialectical Journal Essay

2) “I saw in their possession was a few lumps of some stuff like half-cooked dough, of a dirty lavender color, they kept wrapped in leaves, and now and then swallowed a piece of, but so small that it seemed done more for the looks of the thing than for any serious purpose of sustenance. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom.”
In this quote, when Marlow was traveling, he notices a bunch of people were chained up. He notices they look like slaves. He knew they were labors, by seeing them locked up together. The first thought that came up to his mind, was they are enemies. He had a picture in a mind that these people
Most of the Africans are facing with various types of diseases. The color that comes to his mind is green because it relates with diseases and sickness. In Africa, diseases are commonly spread, and the situation slaves are in, it is sure that some are carrying contagious disease. As Marlow sees them, their skins were not glowing, and their muscles were fragile. They were mistreated and amount of work they did they were never appreciated. He looked at them as any human being would. Marlow was disturbed by seeing them weak, with no capacity in the body to work hard, but still they have motive. Their physical conditions were very poor, but they still worked hard. They didn’t have any food, medicine or care from which they can rejuvenate and get back to work. Slaves were treated inhumanely and because of this he sees them as less than human. The author does tell the audience that Africans were often labeled as animals and their bodies were used as machine for the work their owners used to command. Conrad finds the similarities between whites and savages, a kind of “kinship.” Further in the story savages are significantly degraded. The savages act more civilized than the pilgrims as their journey leads them to Kurtz’s