What is the nature and scope of the modernist crises as depicted in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"? ... It was a time of rapid change, and writers of this time including Conrad, attempted to confront and indeed embrace this change, in their writing. ... Perhaps by doing this Conrad was attempting to highlight the ignorance of his contemporary society. ... Firstly it is essential to realize that Conrad does not present two separate issues, a public one (colonialism, previously discussed) and a private one (knowledge of the self), but rather that the two are intricately li...

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