Power in HOD and TLL
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- Power in 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The Lonely Londoners'
- Heart of Darkness
- Kurtz as a paradigm of power albeit superficial/artificial
- peripheral existence
- worshipped god - like figure
- 'his ascendancy was extraordinary'
- his ridiculous inability to fulfil promises is reflected through the Intended
- failure to the imperial project
- Kurtz's frailty epitomises the futility of this primitive power and his death symbolises a rather joyful decline of evil
- 'I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror - of an intense and hopeless despair'
- desire for power at the expense of African natives
- powerful, symbolic reaffirmation of the imperial system
- elements of humour futilises power/desire for power
- power of natives
- ivory = power
- power determines fate
- grounded at the core of humanity is a profound desire to dominate
- Kurtz as a paradigm of power albeit superficial/artificial
- power and corruption are inextricably linked in both texts
- Heart of Darkness
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