Throughout his narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Charlie Marlow has a chance to encounter the indigenous peoples of Africa. Marlow sees them as poor, devastated savages or in other words, the Other, using many ... of colonialism create a sense of dehumanization. Like the stereotype that all Africans are indistinguishable formless shapes, so too is Africa a structure-less continent. Marlow describes Africa with references to the banks "rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded by the contorted mangroves that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impot...

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