In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, examine Marlows attitude toward the Africans. Is there any evidence that he is condescending toward them?...

In 's
, I do not find any sense thatis condescending toward the Africans. If
anything, he is appalled at how the Europeans treat the natives. If he has difficulty with
anyone, it is with the agents of the Company who see themselves as a vastly superior race, while
exhibiting a total disregard for the population they have enslaved.

Marlow
has been delivered into a part of the world where...

A
prevalent feeling among Europeans...was that the African peoples required introduction to
European culture and technology in order to become more evolved. 

"Someone had to do it," was the attitude, and the term "white man's
burden" shows just how superior Europeans saw themselves by comparison to the indigenous
people of the Congo. King Leopold II of Belgium decided there was great wealth to be had in
Africaso he established a colony there, and his agents "raped" the land and its
people.

Marlow is new to this part of the world, but it does not take long
for him be...