Heart Of Darkness Ownership And Power

The sense of self and ownership is defined by the tangible and intangible things. The more people accumulate is directly proportional to the more power of self worth people have. Aristotle, makes a claim “that ownership of tangible goods help develop moral character”. This holds to be true with various examples throughout history. Equally, ownership extends beyond tangible things as well, Jean Paul-Sartre. In the novel Heart of Darkness, the Europeans paternalistic views on AFrica were shaped by the ideas of power. Europeans have accumulated more land and power than any other continent in the world creating this superiority because of ownership moral character derives from this because of this superiority Europeans felt the power to own other beings because the ownership they already had.This create a gateway for immoral actions based on ownership, Africans were dehumanized because of their lack of ownership builds self worth and pride.
These also contribute to the building of moral character. There is ownership in creation of a new idea. A new dance has ownership to the creator. A famous dance move called the “moonwalk” is directly correlated with the Michael Jackson giving him ownership. Ownership of idea and skill is copyright. Individuality is so important to society that there are laws in place to have ownership remain with self- worth. Copyright was made to enforce ownership and its power to express originality. (This is mine no one else can claim