摘要
约瑟夫·康拉德的代表作《黑暗之心》自从出版以来得到了广大读者的喜爱以及众多学者的关注，英语毕业论文，对康拉德在小说中渗透的是拥护抑或反对殖民主义的立场各执一词。本论文认为此小说是一部充满了人文主义和反殖民主义情怀的小说，英语论文网站，书中对黑人困苦生活的描述及借马洛之口揭露的欧洲殖民者的虚伪、贪婪和对欧洲殖民者的残忍罪恶行径进行的批评无不体现了作者康拉德鲜明的反殖民主义思想，其在小说中的反殖民主义思想是显而易见的。本论文通过对《黑暗之心》中受压迫的黑人形象的略论及欧洲殖民者在非洲虚伪、贪婪、残忍的罪恶行径的描述来解读《黑暗之心》中康拉德的反殖民主义思想和种族意识。
关键词 反殖民主义，约瑟夫·康拉德，《黑暗之心》
Abstract
Since the publication of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, it has achieved great popularity among readers and got too much attention from numerous scholars. This thesis holds that Heart of Darkness is filled with rich color of humanism and strong inclination of anti-colonialism. Through Marlow’s narration, Conrad reveals the hypocrisy and greed of European colonizers and expresses his strong criticism to their cruelty and evil acts. Conrad describes the native blacks’ miserable lives under colonizers’ oppression and satirizes their hypocrisy, which tells us Conrad’s conspicuous anti-colonial thought. In this thesis, I will analyze the images of the dark Africa and the oppressed blacks, study the hypocritical and evil images of European colonizers intensively and look into Conrad’s anti-colonial thought in Heart of Darkness.
Keywords anti-colonialism,Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
1 Introduction
1．1 Conrad and Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad is a polish-born English novelist who is considered to be one of the greatest modern English writers. His mother tongue is not English but in F.R. Leavis’s The Great Tradition, he is ranked among the top four greatest English novelists. Conrad was born in Poland and exiled from his own country with his parents. At eight, His mother died owing to the harsh conditions of exile. After his mother’s death, he lived with his father until his father’s death. In 1872, an idea that he wanted to go to the sea struck this young boy. Then regardless of all relatives’ objections, in 1874, he traveled to Marseilles and became a seaman. During his seaman’s career, he sailed to many places of the world which made a great difference to his life and his writing career. In 1895, he published his first novel Almayer’s Folly. Then he published many great novels during 1897-1911, including The nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Heart of Darkness (1898), Nostromo (1904), The secret Agent (1907),etc.
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