Heart-of-darkness-written-by-Joseph-Conrad-writing-homework-help
Heart-of-darkness-written-by-Joseph-Conrad-writing-homework-help
Word Count: 1700 Words Format: MLA
Essay Topic 1
In his essay on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Chinua Achebe writes that “Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist”, and that Heart of Darkness is itself a racist book. Do you agree with Achebe?
For this essay, I’m interested in your assessment of the second claim (that the book is racist) rather than the first ( that Conrad himself was racist). In other words, your essay should not be a work of psycho-biography, but of literary criticism.
You will need to read Achebe’s essay and summarize his argument succinctly in your own essay.
Alternatively, you can respond to another critics reading of the novel (Heart of Darkness is one of the most critically- discussed novels of all time, so finding criticism through the library or online resources wont be difficult). If you choose to respond to another critic, you will still need to summarize their argument before responding to it and giving your own reading.
