Europe has all these restrictions that restrain one from unleashing his inner-self. Africa on the other hand has no restrictions whatsoever which means that it is not prohibited from doing anything. Africa represents the hidden part of our minds that we do not dare of showing. It represents the Id that we fight so hard to keep bottled up inside of us. Sigmund Freud once said that the mind is like an iceberg. The surface that is shown would be Europe and the part that is hidden under water which is not visible to us is Africa. Likewise, people express their best intentions while hiding their darker ones. Conrad’s world completely represents a metaphorical expression of the mind.
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