How is imperialism successful in Heart of Darkness?
I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but… Historically, the main argument in favor of imperialism (given by the imperialists of course) was civilizing the natives. Generally the first way of doing this was by bringing them religion–I don’t recall that being a major issue in HoD. Another facet of it is bringing them technology. One could argue that the Europeans did in fact bring technology to the Natives in HoD — I remember something about railroads at the very beginning. If you were to include that as a counter argument in your paper you can then go on to refute it by pointing out that in many ways the technology brought to the Natives was also used to suppress and exploit the Natives. Sorry I couldn’t give you something more specific, I haven’t read the book in almost 2 years…
