Company Director |
Kayerts (Station Chief) |
Carlier (subordinate) |
Makola / Henry |
Gobila and villagers |
Narrator |
What is the value of the "human"?
Ideology questions:
- What spontaneous, natural or transparent beliefs are evident?
- How do these beliefs "make possible certain kinds of cultural
consensus" (87)?
- How does ideology set the ground for what does and does not
count?
- To what extent does it limit characters to understanding only
"where [they] fit" rather than "how things" really "are"? (89)
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Western European Ideology |
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- values, Christianity
- hierarchy and order
- trade, resources
- progress
- colonization/"civilizing"
- local, native Africans
- traditionalism (religion)
- wilderness
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