... biases of colonialism create a sense of dehumanization. Conrad describes Africa through the perspective of Marlow who tend to depict all the natives as savages. Many existing elements align themselves with colonialist discourses of savagery and brutality, particularly its representations of black African characters. The Congolese ... to their movements, which are characterized as wild and irrational. While he is in the jungle, Marlow discovers a death pit literally an open grove where local people go to die. He describes the men there saying: "Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between th...

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