Joseph Conrad's Nostromo as a Parable of Colonial Exploitation
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The objective of this thesis is to explore colonial exploitation in Joseph
Conrd's Nostromo. The novel is the story of revolution in Latin American
Republicans against the colonialist's exploitation on poor and native people. There are
social, political, cultural and economic exploitation. The exploitation has risen to the
unification among poor and to the revolution to get the equal excess to every field.
The colonialists who colonized the country are controlling natural resources and the
natives are being used as workers just for hand to mouth. The native poor people who
are the real owner of the land have been sidelined with the use of power. It gives an
acute sense of domination among the native poor people and that works as the fuel to
their revolution to get back control over the natural resources. The novel is full of
colonial exploitation. So, this thesis is an attempt to link that story with the
postcolonial theory.