Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Heart of Darkness Passage
One of my favorite passages that I have read is the one about the cannibal restraint. When Marlow describes the world and the cannibals are there and not coming to eat Marlow and the rest of the people, it demonstrates how the so called "uncivilized" world is actually "civilized." The Europeans are the ones who are actually have no self control and self restraint on what is right and what is wrong. This could have been because of the colonization of the British by the Romans who brought in business and new technology and exploited the British. The Africans are restraint and I love this because we don't see self restraint very often because of the way our society is today. I believe understanding self restraint is a very important thing in living a safe and healthy and successful life. I believe that we as a society have digressed and our moral and values have regressed and that the Africans would have progressed as a more healthy and smart civilization if they kept practicing self restraint and if it wasn't for the hungry and driven and unrestrained Europeans, then the Africans would have had a more successful morally and shaping cleaner and healthier future.
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