On the surface, both Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness and the 1939 film Gunga Din are tales of great adventure and great prosperity obtained in foreign lands. ... Through both film and literature, Heart of Darkness and Gunga Din exhibit a clear dichotomy between Europeans and natives: while Europeans are portrayed as individuals and endowed with admirable traits, native peoples are overgeneralized, dehumanized, and described negatively. ... Both Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Gunga Din portray Europeans and indigenous peoples in starkly different ways. ... In Heart of Darkness...

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Demonstrate an Understanding that the Irrationality of Savagery is the Central Theme in of Joseph Conrad's Novella "Heart of Darkness- In Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness- the reader is presented with the character of Marlow the protagonist, who begins by telling the passengers onboard a ship about his experiences in the Belgian Congo. The novella gradually becomes increasingly sinister as Marlow progresses ever closer to the centre of the jungle following a river "a snake- that had "charmed- him into going to the Congo Moreover, at the centre of this river lies the "hea...

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