These European characters, then, must necessarily have non-European counterparts who form the reverse side of the Western imperialist narrative. ... On one hand, the chief accountant is an individual with personality, while on the other "black shapes [crouch]," "black shadows of disease and starvation [lie] confusedly," and one "creature...[rises] to his hands and knees, and [goes] off on all fours towards the river to drink" (Conrad 30). ... He, like other Europeans in the film, assumes the homogeneity of "Oriental" peoples and their traits; furthermore...

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