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The moral conditions for genocide in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1).(Critical Essay)
From: College Literature
Date: 20050101
Author:Lackey, Michael
Scholars may differ in their moral assessment of Joseph Conrad's fiction, but they all seem to agree that morality is a legitimate lens for interpreting the novels. The problem, of course, is specifying Conrad's orientation toward morality, for as scholars consistently observe, unstable knowledge and unreliable perception are persistent themes in Conrad's corpus. (2) Not surprisingly, there has been much confusion on the topic of Conrad's moral vision. Given Conrad's rejection of certain knowledge, Ian Watt claims that Conrad develops a flexible moral paradigm, what he dubs ...
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