Controversy over the novella

By: Lance Welsh, Mariah Guiswite, and Haylee Fishel

Context

Time period Around the time of

publication of the novella February1899

Place Around the whole

(Wikipedia)(Heart of Darkness)

Connection to the Novella

Directly relates Novella caused the controversy

(Heart of Darkness) (Heart of Darkness)

Controversy

Racist and offensive portrayal of Africans Language Use of the word “nigger”

Negro, Niger, and the archaic slang word “neger”

come from Latin roots for black(Alexander)

African People in the Congo

(Dembner)

Banned

Poland and Germany and the USSR Political censorship

(Banned Books)(Sartre)

Quotes from the Book

“Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

(Conrad)

Quotes from the Book

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future” –Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

(Conrad)

Quotes from the Book

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.” –Joseph Conrad,

Heart of Darkness

(Conrad)

Connection to today Reminder of man’s inhumanity to man

A century ago in the Congo A few decades ago in Vietnam A few years ago in Syria

(The Horror! The Horror! of banning books) (TET Offensive)

Work Cited

Alexander, Lynn M. "Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness." August 1999. utm. Document. 11 April 2015.

"Banned Books." 31 July 2013. Post Desk. Document. 11 April 2015.

Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darknes Quotes." 2015. GoodReads. Document. 11 April 2015.

Dembner, S.A. "Forest peoples in the central African rain forest: focus on the pygmies." n.d. FAO Corporate Document Repository. Picture. 10 April 2015.

Work Cited Continued "Heart of Darkness." n.d. ManyBooks. Picture. 10

April 2015. Sartre. "Web Attack Bodes Political Censorship." 5

December 2010. Batr. Picture. 11 April 2015. "TET Offensive." 2015. History. Picture. 11 April

2015. "The Horror! The Horror! of banning books." 4

October 2012. Lost and Found Books. Document. 11 April 2015.

Wikipedia. "Heart of Darkness." 10 April 2015. Wikipedia. Picture. 11 April 2015.