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Connection Between Heart of Darkness and Candide

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Connection Between Heart of Darkness and Candide

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Kurtz always said what he believed no matter what response people gave. This is the opposite of quietism. His belief and Pangloss's beliefs both make people question the society.

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"Those heads on the stakes."
It gives me the shakes.

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And the lie that Marlow says to her to comfort her about Kurtz's last words.

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- "remote, desolate corner of the empire"

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The character and actions of the protagonist

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Psychological horror story; described as the "tour de force" of its time

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It is inside of people and outside of people, with Marlow comments about Kurts of "the barren darkness of his heart"

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Heart of Darkness has a rhetorical and highfalutin style

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Heart of Darkness has a rhetorical and highfalutin style

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words to use and define

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Conrad attacks imperialism for failing to live up to its own ideals;  kurtz is a great example of this, as he wants to "exterminate all the brutes" and ends up becoming one of them. He also mocks imperialism for how mighty it thinks itself- a french ship firing into a continent, what could it possibly be hoping to acheive?

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Marlow believing that Kurtz's report of the International Society of Suppression of Savage customs, is ignorantly shaming the African culture. Marlow however continues to hold his belief on this even through the obvious "horror" of treatment towards as they call them, "savages"

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Kurtz is the 'ultimate proof' of kinship between Europe and the natives. Demonstrates that Kurtz ends up being consumed by the same "forgotten and brutal instincts he once intended to suppress." This suggests that it is impossible to suppress the true nature of humanity.

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The novella contains a bitter
critique of imperialism in the Congo

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setting the opening of HOD on the Thames allows conrad to criticise imperialism by the lack of differences between the so-called civilized societies and the so-called primitive ones

Africa
river journey

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europeans are not essentially more highly evolved or enlightened than people whose territories they invade

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Conrad relates to his journey by placing his real story into a fictional one

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The journey that Marlow takes is - as indicated by the article - a journey that Conrad took.

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Ultimately suggests that Heart of Darkness tells a comforting lie rather than the truth; this itself is a reflection of the society at the time and the ignorance of the racism in the Congo