How are Africans represented in “Heart of Darkness?
Africans are generally represented as barbaric, non-humans. The narrator represents them as being very similar to the strange and foreign land around him. For examples, see when the narrator first arrives in the Congo and see’s the Africans chained up. Also look at how he describes the surrounding jungle as he moves up the river and how he talks about the natives when he gets to the ivory outpost – he uses similar language.
