1. Gunga Din and Heart of Darkness
... protagonists seek adventure and wealth in a distinctly European sense, concerned primarily with benefitting themselves as members of Western society while overlooking any negative consequences. These European characters, then, must necessarily have non-European counterparts who form the reverse side of the Western imperialist narrative. In both stories, this opposing group consists of indigenous peoples who function as the objects-in contrast to the agents ... -of exploitation and colonization. It is in the disparate representations, descriptions, and judgements of these native societies...
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- Grade Level: Graduate