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The Heart of Darkness ' by Joseph Conrad is one of the great novels of English literature . This novel exposes the greed , malice and selfishness of the European men . They exploit the wealth of Africa in the name of civilizing the natives . They take away their ivory and in return gave them hunger , destitution , poverty , degradation and death . The English men of this novel lack morals and conscience . Conrad observed the hypocrisy of his country men and exposed it in a

marvelous way in this short piece of art . Heart of Darkness is an allegory that takes into account the soul 's journey through purgatory and hell to salvation , and that expedition is analogous to the pursuit for the Holy Grail or is equivalent to expedition of Dante 's Inferno . Conrad major objective in writing a sea-voyage is best expressed in one of his letter that manifests that his major concern was that the "public mind fastens on externals , on mere facts , such for instance as ships and voyages without paying attention to any deeper significance they might have (Jean-Aubry 1927 , 320-321

I like the novel due to its variety of themes as mentioned above and symbolic representations of these themes . I especially adore the way Conrad exposes the greed , malice and selfishness of the European men in the name of enlightenment and civilization . They exploit the wealth of Africa in the name of civilizing the natives . They take away their ivory...