comparative study of Things fall Apart and Kanthapura and Heart of Darkness

Name : Heeral A. Bhatt

Roll no. 07 Batch year

2012/14 Semester 4 Paper no 14 Subject

African literature

Representation of African culture in Heart of darkness

“to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather

hat walking on his hind legs” (Conrad 36). Marlow describes Africa with references to the banks “rotting

into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded [by] the contorted mangroves that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair”

Two different ways of presenting Africa in literature

Representation of african culture in Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart, which portrays

Africans in a structured and civilized society

Heart of Darkness illustrates the European notions that all Africans are the same: savage,

primitive, and inhuman

Heart of Darkness

Marlowe’s dismissive saying, “Girl! What? Did I mention a girl? Oh, she should be out of it. We must help them stay in that beautiful world of their own, lest ours get worse”.

Things fall Apart

Low voices, broken now and again by singing, reached Okonkwo from his wives’ huts as each woman and her children told folk stories. Ekwefi and her daughter, Ezinma, sat on a mat on the floor. It was Ekwefi’s turn to tell a story”. -

Similarities between Kanthapura and Things Fall Apart

O kenchamma !protect us always like this through famine and disease, death and despair, through the harvest night shall we dance before you, the fire in the middle and the hornes about us,we shall sing and sing and clap our sing - Kanthapura

“ When a man says, yes his chi also says yes also – Things fall Apart

Comparison between two characters Moorthy and Okonkwo

Language of Moorthy and language of Okonkwo

Okonkwo more violent than Moorthy Moorthy didn't follow the tradition of

his culture and Okonkwo followed the tradition

Difference between kanthapura and Things Fall APART

End of novel Kanthapura with “pralaya”

Things fall apart ends with surrender to colonizers

Submitted to, Heenaba Zala S.B.Gardi Department of English MK Bhavanagar university Submit on : 6/3/2014

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