... and utter despair" (Conrad 46). As these passages help illustrate, the majority of the Congolese's communication within Heart of Darkness is represented as screaming or wailing bestowal of the European upon the Congolese. These people scream perhaps because of the fact that their living condition is very similar to an animal. Their dependence depends on the colonists. These Congolese are ... the effect that the men are nothing more than elements of a vague form. Marlow's depictions originate from a stereotype that says all Africans are made of the same, non-descript characteristics, unl...

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