neighboring tribes. The Congo region learned early on that their inhabitants and their resources could be subject to exploitation. This is the example that was given when King Leopold II of Belgium gave as he took control the Congo Region and exploited its natural resources for personal gain. Called the Congo Free State‚ King Leopold II of Belgium was the sole shareholder and chair of the African International Society‚ a dummy
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“King Leopold II may we please go to Congo to conqueror them and use them as slaves so they can produce goods for us‚” asked a Belgian military soldier. The King of Belgium at the time was King Leopold II‚ answered by saying‚ “why yes! That would be such a great idea to spread imperialism around the world.” Imperialism was being spread by Western civilizations to foreign countries and they were bullying the foreign countries‚ because they were bigger and stronger than they were. The Western nations
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finds the secret not worth knowing"(48). Conrad must have felt this excitement upon hearing the news that he was to travel to the Congo for four months. After witnessing the "abomination"(50) that took place in the Congo under the rule of King Leopold II‚ Conrad felt that "the secret" he was so enthusiastic about four months prior was "never worth knowing". The theme of Heart of Darkness is the immorality of imperialism. The narrator expresses the widespread belief that imperialism is a glorious
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thousands Congolese were forced to work in the forests. Those who did not follow the order were killed or amputated. During the reign of Leopold‚ 10 million Congolese were murdered. Edmund Dene Morel‚ a prominent British journalist who witnessed the atrocities in the Congo‚ described what the king had done to the Congolese: Thus‚ with a stroke of the pen‚ King Leopold abolished the rights of the natives to the land and its products; thus he swept away their liberty‚ and the liberty of others‚ to trade
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things into certain areas of the book to excite the reader. Everything was very good‚ but it was just there on the pages and then handed to us. He does include some historians that might be new to the readers such as Marc Bloch‚ Sima Qian‚ Mary Beard‚ Leopold Von Ranke‚ Edward Gibbon. Bede I had heard about because he is the patron saint of historians and
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the wider world where many people have a curiosity about the past and a passion for historical research…” Conrad’s view that history is a “discipline that has standard for practitioners” echoes the perspective of the “father of modern history”‚ Leopold von Ranke. Indeed‚ shaping history as a professional discipline in the late 19th Century‚ von Ranke envisaged the role of the historian as presenting the past “as how it really was” (wie es eigentlich). This “colourless” history‚ free of the prevailing
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The Misrepresentation of Africa The 19th century was one of the most important time periods that helped shape the world into what it is today. Western European powers‚ such as Great Britain‚ Germany‚ and France‚ strongly believed in the notion that in order to gain more dominant global power‚ they would have to conquer new lands across the globe and exploit the territories’ resources. Throughout the early and mid 1800s‚ the nations of Western Europe upheld imperialism‚ conquering and exploiting
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It tells about the historiography and the contributions of earlier scholars such as Leopold von Ranke and the “scientific” approach to historical writing. As it characterizes this‚ it is the “Acts and Facts” approach to history. The book also contains reviews‚ the transition from Ellwood Cubberly’s progressivist approach to US history of
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of Africa became free of their titles of colony‚ charismatic and strong national leaders rose to lead the people. Many of these received a Western education‚ but remained committed to creating a new Africa for the people. Among these‚ notably was Leopold Sedar Senghor who became Senegal ’s first president when the country gained independence in 1960. Senghor was one of the founders of the Negritude movement which aimed to embrace the traditions and roots which had made Africa unique. The main idea
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In Conrad’s 1902 novella Heart of Darkness‚ there are several ways of interpreting Marlow’s journey down the Congo River. Marlow’s journey is symbolic and metaphoric‚ and hence can be interpreted psychoanalytically‚ mythically and historically. A psychoanalytical reading involves examining Marlow’s journey in the light of Freud’s and Nietzsche’s understanding of humanity’s inner psyche. A mythical understanding reverberates on the plot‚ such that Marlow engages on a heroic quest to find his holy
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