Colonial Psyche in Joseph Conrad‘s An Outcast of the Islands

Abstract

This research primarily delves into colonial psyche as well as colonial politics which is operated covertly and overtly robbing the freedom and choices of the colonized people in Malaya continent. The colonizers follow various steps and ways; military force, deceptive strategies to bring the nonwhite people under control. This study is to elucidate how colonial practices and aggressive activities take place in the colonial period. Colonialism is the projection of the mentality to overcome, defeat and dehumanize those who belong to different kinds of socio-cultural background. European traders and colonial agents practice harsh and dehumanizing practices over native people in the name of making them civilized and educated. Whites' greed for wealth and gems of Malay Archipelago is so limitless that finally they meet their own doom. In their mission to capture materialistic objects, they develop insanity and callousness. The fall of the white shows that colonialism is a mask behind which the ruthless process of exploitation lies. Besides seeking to exploit resources voraciously, the whites do not hesitate to dominate and dismantle the politico-cultural system of Archipelago.