Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad develops themes of personal power, individual responsibility, and social justice in his book Heart of Darkness. ... Having gone back and reread Heart of Darkness, but this time reading between the lines, I have discovered some racism Conrad felt toward the natives that I had not discovered the first time I read the book. ... Heart of Darkness was written, consciously or unconsciously, from a colonialist point of view. ... Overall, the natives appeared better humans than the Europeans in Heart of Darkness.