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An 8 page paper discussing how Henry James and Joseph Conrad go about creating their atmospheres of evil in these novels, and what in fact they believe evil to be. The paper concludes that for both authors evil is the presence of something concretely malefficient, not just the absence of something abstractly good. Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
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led to believe it through our every contact with them in the course of the novels. Even more fascinating is the fact that in neither novel is the exact nature
of the evil specified; it is left to our imaginations. This paper will discuss how James and Conrad go about creating their atmospheres of evil, and what in fact they
believe evil to be. Evil in Conrads Heart of Darkness seems concentrated in the personality of the novels antihero, Kurtz -- who by the time we meet him is
known as the blackest, most reprehensible man alive. Kurtz seems to have left Europe intending not to subjugate Africa but to civilize it. Automatically, in our era of multiculturalism, this
would damn Kurtz in the eyes of most readers, but we have to remember that Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness in 1902, when the idea of native Africans having
any culture worth preserving would have been considered laughable. And yet Conrad treats his African characters with a great deal of dignity; along with Marlow, they are by far the
most sympathetic characters in the book. Kurtz, however, has no respect for the Africans. Soon after his arrival in Africa, he wrote a paper for the International Society for
the Suppression of Savage Customs in which he claims that the white man in Africa must "necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings we approach them
with the might as of a deity. . . By the simple exercise of our will, we can exert a power for good practically unbounded" (Conrad, 561). And indeed, "the
Harlequin" assures Marlow that the natives worship Kurtz; they would do anything for him. Marlow, reading Kurtz report, admitted that he was caught up in it; "it gave [him] the
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