THEMES IN HEART OF DARKNESS

THEMES IN HEART OF DARKNESS

WHAT IS THE THEME?

The theme is the subject or the main idea in a talking piece of writing or any work of art.

“Theme is defined as a the main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.”

MAJOR THEMES

Colonialism
Imperialism
Darkness
Social themes
Moral themes

SOCIAL THEMES

Civilization
Slavery
Race
Identify crisis
Feminism
Madness

MORAL THEMES

Hate
Reality
Power
Lust for ivory and fame
Good and evil

CONCLUSION

Colonialism and imperialism are the main idea which one found in Joseph Conrad’s creativity “Heart of Darkness”. There are some other themes in it such as power, darkness, exploration, civilization or not, cruelty, slavery, hypocrisy, madness, lust of natural resources, especially, ivory, fate and freewill moral confusion self restrain,