Jacobs starts her story and states in the preface that she wants to "arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of millions of women at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered"(Jacobs XIV). ... Thus she understands that some common ideals of womanhood cannot be applied to black enslaved women, and the latter should establish concepts of integrity and selfhood for themselves. ... It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. ... Hence, by "revived sense of manhood," that I have mentioned previously, Dou...

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Conrad himself had personal experiences in Africa and states that the novel is "experience pushed a little (and only very little) beyond the actual facts of the case for the perfectly legitimate- (Conrad 11) in his notes. ... Joseph Conrad's depiction of the common European male exposes the extent of the denial involved with Imperialism. ... "The true center of Heart of Darkness is the subtly revealed psychology of an ethical human being struggling to maintain a moral perspective-a sense of moral cleanliness, at any rate-in a situation revoltingly immoral."" ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate