Ideology - Joseph Conrad's "Outpost of Progress"

Company Director Kayerts (Station Chief) Carlier (subordinate) Makola / Henry Gobila and villagers Narrator
What is the value of the "human"?

Ideology questions:

  1. What spontaneous, natural or transparent beliefs are evident?
  2. How do these beliefs "make possible certain kinds of cultural consensus" (87)?
  3. How does ideology set the ground for what does and does not count?
  4. To what extent does it limit characters to understanding only "where [they] fit" rather than "how things" really "are"? (89)
Western European Ideology          
  1. values, Christianity
  2. hierarchy and order
  3. trade, resources
  4. progress
  5. colonization/"civilizing"
  6. local, native Africans
  7. traditionalism (religion)
  8. wilderness