Criticism In Conrad And Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness

Bloom argues that this influence could be gained consciously or unconsciously, and in Hamid's situation, he is aware of his influence by Conrad due to the closeness in circumstance amongst Conrad and Hamid. Joseph Conrad is a Polish lived in England, thus, Hamid is a Pakistani lived in America. Conrad personally visited the Congo before writing his novel and he wrote about a place he knows, likewise, Hamid has been to America and studied at Princeton before composing his novel. Both novels reflect a real journey of their authors. Conrad wrote about a political situation at his age and he mirrored the way that Africans were treated during the colonization, and Hamid wrote about a political situation at his time and reflected the way that Muslims are treated in the west after September 11. On one hand, Conrad has written Heart of Darkness in 1899, and it talks about a steamship captain whose name is Marlow, who is, additionally, the narrator beside another unknown narrator, who goes in a journey to Africa in a …show more content…
Such a genealogy works towards an account of the ways in which this modern ‘regime of the self’ emerges, not as the outcome of any gradual process of enlightenment, in which humans, aided by the endeavours of science, come at last to recognize their true nature, but out of a number of contingent and altogether less refined and dignified practices and processes. (124) Hamid has been influenced by Conrad's quest for identity in Heart of Darkness for his protagonist. In Conrad's novel, Marlow at first knows his target, which is being in a journey and he was happy being a steamship captain who is going to discover the world, but once he finds himself losing his identity when he saw the Africans tortured and die like