<u>Answer:</u>
The one reason heart of darkness has been criticized as racist is that African cultures are depicted in a biased way.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness” has been labelled as written from a racist point of view. Many critics have commented that the novel describes every person very poorly and shows that Europeans were the victims.
Some have even pointed out that Conrad’s novel stresses on the idea of superiority of Europe over Africa. Also, the point of view of the African characters don’t find an expression in the novel. They are portrayed as childish. These are some reasons why this novel is said to have a racist approach.
C. Poets repeat words and phrases to emphasize important ideas in poems.
The infinitive phrase is "to spend the afternoon tobogganing".
An infinitive phrase expresses the action in a sentence. They can often function as nouns, adjectives or adverbs. E.g.: To win the approval of her mother-in-law by cooking dinner was Mary's only hope. The infinitive phrase in bold functions as a noun because is the subject of the sentence. When the phrase explains 'how' it functions as and adjective, when the phrase explains 'why' it functions as an adverb.
