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A 5 page essay that analyzes Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. The writer contrasts and compares the way that these writers created doubles in their narratives. No additional sources cited.
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enhance, expedite and facilitate the processes of characterization. However, there are also some fundamental differences in the way that Conrad and Woolf utilize this device. In Mrs. Dalloway,
Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith, although they do share a basic coldness and frigidity, are more analogous to mirror images of each other then emotional twins. It is their
differences more then their similarities that serve Woolfs purposes of characterization. Conrad, on the other hand, in characters of Kurtz and Marlow, shows two people at different stages of a
process that ultimately -- as Kurtz demonstrates, results in degeneration. In other words, in many ways, Marlow is the young man that Kurtz once was when he first came to
the Congo. Heart of Darkness concerns the dichotomy that exists between civilization and the basic instincts that lie just below the surface in the human psyche. Conrad expresses this
very poetically when he has Marlow muse about Kurtzs character, "I think it (the jungle) had whispered to him things about himself, which he did not know, things of
which he had no conception till he took counsel with his great solitude" (Conrad, 1989, p. 73). The river journey that both Marlow and Kurtz take into the heart of
Africa is symbolic of delving into the darkest recesses of the human soul. Conrad reveals that when Kurtz came to the Congo he was an idealistic young man, intent
on bringing "civilization" to the natives. He was accomplished and very intelligent. While Marlow may not be as idealistic as Kurtz, he is also a very intelligent man and also
accomplished, as he was an experienced sailor. However, unlike Kurtz, Marlow has the example of what can happen if he gives in to his darker impulses now that he is
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