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An 8 page paper which examines the importance of setting in Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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provide the reader with a look at a foreign country that is controlled by the British, regions which have been the victim, or are the victim, of colonization. As such
their settings become incredibly crucial in the telling of the story. They are foreign lands with foreign images and people, frightening realities, and yet a powerful mystery that seems to
indicate that the British will never win against such natural truth. The following paper examines the setting in each story separately and then compares the two in a final section.
Heart of Darkness As one critic notes, "Joseph Conrads 1902 novel Heart of Darkness is about many things: seafaring, riverboating, trade and exploration, imperialism and colonialism, race relations,
the attempt to find meaning in the universe while trying to get at the mysteries of the subconscious mind."1 All of these issues, these possibilities take place in the particular
setting, a setting that is incredibly foreign to Marlow, the man in search of Kurtz. There is a sense of barrenness to the place, a sense of desolation, that is
often described through items and images relating to the setting. One critic indicates that the setting presents us with many different symbolic signs of Marlows journey and what he
will discover and find, much of which is seen in things that are black and things that are white. This critic notes that, "Signs are things you see or
experience or are told which have meaning beyond the literal: old women knitting black wool might simply be relatives of the company personnel given some position of respect and usefulness,
or the sombre colour of their wool and clothing, and their serious demeanour, might suggest that they mind the gateway to a mysterious underworld."2 This main character, Marlow, is clearly
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