Colonialism and Imperialism in Heart of Darkness and A Passage to India

It is best to analyze the kit and boodle, Heart of Darkness and A overtaking to India, applying the historic and cultural conditions of the society in which they were produced. The relations between groups and classes of citizenry that proudism sets up, and that these two leads explore, starkly reveals the contradictions at heart capitalist economy in a way that a similar piece of fiction set within one culture and dealing with characters from that culture alone cannot. Prior to the abridgment however, I would like to give a brief, pertinent explanation of the loss approach to the analysis of literature and of the terms I will be using. After years of study and research, Karl Marx published the first volume of his monolithic Das Kapital in 1867. In it Marx presents his theory of the materialist conception of history in which the economic base of a society gives rise to and interacts in a dialectical way with the societal superstructure of culture, law, religion and art. Amon g other things, Das Kapital traces the historical development of industrial capitalism as arising out of feudalism, predicts capitalisms further evolution, and sets onwards theories of class structure and class struggle. It as well as critiques the methods by which industrial capitalism organizes the performer of production so that capital and labor are stranded and held by distinct and antagonistic groups within the society. This separation overwhelmingly benefits the holders of capital, politically and economically, to the corresponding detriment of those who sell their labor. Though this is by no means an adequate summary of Marx ideas and contributions, my aim is to provide this simple theoretical role model within which to focus on more particular elements of Marxist theory. Fo... ...ieve that imperial rule, if inevitable in the short run, was an inglorious enterprisingness that deformed two those who ruled and those who submitted (153). I believe that Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster were two such artists and that the two industrial plant in question reflected their growing awareness of imperialism as an inglorious enterprise whether this was consciously expressed by the author(s) or not. This study will overly attempt to tease out the ways in which each work both supports and subverts the imperial mission and its ideology and I will also speculate to a certain extent as to how these contradictions in the works reflected contradictions in the society in which they were written. Works CitedConrad, James. Heart of Darkness and early(a) Tales. Great Britain, BPC paperbacks ltd. 1990.Forster, E.M. A Passage to India. Neew York Harcourt Brace, 1984.