Abstract
The novel Heart of Darkness is regarded as one of Joseph Conrad's highly skilled works and seen as an important tale written between the years of 1898 - 1899, and also viewed as an assault on imperialism and unethical behaviors of the European colonizers in Africa in the nineteenth century. The novel displays the author's humanity towards the crimes of the colonists and imperialists throughout the world. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad shows the cruelty of colonialism in Africa through his major character, Charlie Marlow, who realizes the cruel manners of Belgian colonialism during his journey to the Congo looking for the European ivory agent, Kurtz. This novel is a combination of two opposite things. It exposes the author's viewpoint regarding the ethics of the Europeans and the Africans.
 This research concentrates on the binary oppositions in Heart of Darkness through Marlow's journey to Africa and exposes Marlow's struggle between his human nature and his beliefs and replies whether his conflict will be effective and bring good results or negative.
Highlights
The novel Heart of Darkness is regarded as one of Joseph Conrad's highly skilled works and seen as an important tale written between the years of 1898 - 1899, and viewed as an assault on imperialism and unethical behaviors of the European colonizers in Africa in the nineteenth century
Hunt Hawkins, the writer of a string of essays on the novel issued through the period 1979 1992, has seen Heart of Darkness as a criticism of Belgium's imperialist project yet its writer like a man mostly assisting British colonialism and imperialism. [In The Location of Culture (1994)], the postcolonial reviewer Homi K
In Heart of Darkness, there is a sign to complete refusal of every cultivation in Africa since Europeans confirmed that Africa and Africans in common were uncultivated which indicates inversely or rudimentary individuals that is why Marlow qualified his trip like an excursion behind on time as he had said: “going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginning of the world” (Conrad, 39)
Summary
The novel Heart of Darkness is regarded as one of Joseph Conrad's highly skilled works and seen as an important tale written between the years of 1898 - 1899, and viewed as an assault on imperialism and unethical behaviors of the European colonizers in Africa in the nineteenth century. Hunt Hawkins, the writer of a string of essays on the novel issued through the period 1979 1992, has seen Heart of Darkness as a criticism of Belgium's imperialist project yet its writer like a man mostly assisting British colonialism and imperialism.
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