Jósef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, more commonly known as Joseph Conrad, was born in Ukraine in 1857; causing him to grow up in a time when Europeans were focused on claiming territories in Africa. As a young boy, Conrad had aspirations to travel the Congo River in Africa. Conrad found work as a sailor at the age of seventeen which aided him in fulfilling his dream when he was able to take command of a steamship in the Belgian Congo in 1890. The results of imperialism witnessed by Conrad at this time were shocking as he viewed the brutal treatment which took place at European stations in Africa. His time spent in Africa had devastating affects on his physical and emotional health.
[...] Conrad himself said, task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel- it is, above all, to make you Regarding Conrad's style of writing and use of symbolism, an annotation at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey considers, Conrad's odd way of using oblique symbolism was both his greatest strength and weakness. In Heart of Darkness, it worked to his advantage because Marlow's storytelling does not blatantly inform the audience about the atrocities in the Congo. [...]
[...] After only two years he became a British citizen.[2] As a child Conrad had dreams of traveling to the Congo and this experience as a sailor aided him in getting there. In 1890 he was brought on a steamship crew headed for the Belgian Congo. It was at this time that he began writing his famed Although this work was written during his travels, the descriptions are vague and poor in comparison to what Conrad later writes in Heart of Darkness. [...]
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