'HOD' - Context

Question 1

1899

Answer 1

Kipling ‘White Man’s Burden’ we need to take the burden of the Empire

Question 2

1885

Answer 2

• Berlin Conference
• Discussed ‘Scramble for Africa’
• Congo was internalised under the African Association of King Leopald II, making him a sovereign
• “a large shining map, marked with all the colours of the rainbow”

Question 3

1870

Answer 3

• Darwin in ‘Decent of Man’ predicted the mass extermination of man: “the civilised races will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world”
• “exterminate the brutes”

Question 4

1925

Answer 4

• T.S Elliot ‘The Hollow Man’
• Opens with “Mistah Kurtz – he dead” and ends “Not with a bang but with a whimper”
• “a cry that was no more than a breath – ‘The horror! The horror!’”

Question 5

1890

Answer 5

• Conrad travelled down the Congo but had to retreat due to illness
• “very ill with bilious attack and fever”