Heart Of Darkness Rhetorical Analysis

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In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad uses specific diction to develop the innate and blatant racism that appears in this novella. Along with the use of racial slurs that appear multiple times throughout the novella and the descriptions of Africans vs. the descriptions of the Europeans, this text shows a clear representation of what it is for an African to experience during the times of Colonialism in Africa. “Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck…” (Conrad 12) This quote itself can describe how the Europeans, especially Marlow and Kurtz felt towards the Africans while on their journey. Not only this, but also, the fact that other people observed this old man getting beat