After reading the two long essays, there is plenty of information attained from it. Achebe and Cedric Watts both are crazy fans of the book, Heart of Darkness, while they have totally opposite attitudes toward the information and emotion conveyed by the author, Joseph Conrad which is regarded as the greatest writer in British literature.

His works just like his dynamic and paradoxical mental life, hating the tyranny but not supporting the anarchism, exposing the con of western culture but also revealing the con of African savage and he is pessimistic but a person who is ideal. Because of the rough and rich experience of life and the different thoughts from his parents, it doomed leading him to become contradictory, however, his thinking was fairly critical.

Actually, the two famous writers were trapped in his paradoxical emotional expression. Achebe’s position of Conrad’s racism is that he is a real bloody racist. Achebe also asserts that the tale celebrates the dehumanization of the black. The reason why he has such a view is that Conrad was a white skin man and the theme of the entire book is criticizing the primitive and uncultivated African.

They are a group of people who have no right to talk, they are savages who were only looked down upon by the white noblemen. All these are Achebe’s own views of Conrad’s racism. However, Cedric Watts’s was not the same as the latter. He holds the view that sometimes the tale offers a third possibility, that is the suggestion of cultural equivalence between the two regions.

He deemed that Achebe suggests no distinction between Leopold and Conrad, both of which are bloody racists, Conrad‘s prejudice, Achebe continues, is illustrated by the contrast of the black mistress with the white intended, the latter speaks but the former does not, so it is clearly not part of Conrad‘s purpose to confer language on the rudimentary souls of Africa(Cedric Watts).

In fact, there no existence of right and wrong in the two famous writers, because of one word which was known to us and it still prevails in today’s world, that is one thousand readers have one thousand of Hamlets. Therefore, there is no limited rules and regulation to measure the false of who and whom. Maybe their thoughts are maladroit, even could be described as literal and external not internal.

But they can be forgiven for them, not the original author, they are not the person who produce this work, they can not really appreciate and get the point and information conveyed from the author. Hence, they should be blamed, instead, they should be praised for their firstly outstanding thoughts and position putting forward to the public. To be honest, if the two positions could be combined together, there might be a huge sum of cultural value.

For one thing, Achebe thinks that Conrad’s racism shall go to the damn, actually, the book is really full of the atmosphere of racial discrimination, for another, Cedric Watts deems that it is feasible and possible to exist the two different culture under the same sky. The meaning of its that is about building a color-blind society (1776, Adam Smith) to hinder feudalism and tyranny. As a matter of fact, making the combination of them could be a valuable thought based on the current social development. Because of the anti-tyranny and appealing the equal-living at the same stage, this is complying with the trend of global development and perhaps, that is what the author really wants to show to the world.