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Conrad in Context: Heart of Darkness and "The Man who would be King"
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Conrad in Context: Heart of Darkness and "The Man who would be King"

Raymond Brebach
Conradiana, v 42(1-2), pp 75-80
01 Mar 2010

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Arts & Humanities Literature Literature, British Isles
Brebach compares the works of Rudyard Kipling's "The Man who would be King" and Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" which are two best known treatments of the nineteenth-century European imperial adventure. Among others, Kipling's dominant tone in his story is a serio-comic adventure yarn, from their names to their working class accents to their self-aggrandizing language and the ridiculousness of their disguises and actions. On the other hand, Conrad's is a brooding meditation on the nature and omni-presence of evil but share a remarkably detailed schema.

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