Heart Of Darkness And Billy Budd Comparison

Both the Heart Of Darkness and Billy Budd show similarities. Such as evil and social injustice. However in both of these stories there is a higher level of social injustice. Which raises the question Is the suppression of class an issue for the social injustice in the Heart of Darkness and Billy Budd? In the Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, he really shows that there is an issue and there is social injustice depending on what “class” level you are in society. In the book of Heart Of Darkness, he refers to African Americans poorly, in a not so good way. Conrad is honestly racist and his racism comes up several times in the book. There are these two characters in the book Marlow and Kurtz, and their “crew”. (which are all white may I remind you) Marlow tends to describe on multiple accounts of the beginning of slavery and Kurtz shows us that he could care less and treats the African Americans with force and violence. Their crew along with Marlow and Kurtz describe what they are doing by saying they are “trading” and that the violence

In the book, Conrad repeatedly shows that he doesn’t like the Africans from the very beginning of the book. He constantly calls them savages and uses the “N-Word” or calls them ugly. In chapter one he said “Near the same tree two more bundles…” he refers to the African Americans as “bundles” not as humans, he is belittling them to as if they are a package that is meaningless and just shows up at your front door. In chapter two he states “And between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was