No Obvious Distinction
At first glance, Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness, appears to be just another nineteenth-century colonial adventure tale, popular for the time period. Written in 1902, during the transition into the modernist literary period, there is great controversy on whether to classify the novella as another colonial tale or to label it as modernist literature, due to the fact that is carries several characteristics of each. Heart of Darkness cannot be classified directly into either a colonial or modernist piece, but rather a transition piece, one that carries characteristics of both literary periods.
For one to form an opinion as to the novella’s classification, they must first understand the differences between a colonial adventure tale and a modernist novel. A colonial tale implies a tale relating the colonization of a particular area, basically, imperialism. Colonization commonly involved the depiction of the native inhabitants as savages who must be “educated” in......
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