A Comparison of Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent Essay -- compar

A Comparison of Heart of Darkness and The dark Agent This essay consists of two separate parts but the blueprint is that both these parts will prove to be relevant from the point of view of what this essay sets out to study. The first part will present Joseph Conrads emotional state and some of his whole shebang and the latter part will consist of a comparison of two of Conrads works, Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent. In this essay I will begin from two assumptions, namely, that both the works mentioned above include clearly identifiable similarities in their narration, theme and method, and, that Conrads own experiences and views have had great launch on both works. The method of this essay is firstly to discuss Conrads life and then to try on to find out what kind of similarities and differences Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent contain and also to try to discover how Conrads own experiences relate to these works ( and his other works in general). I will also t ry to relate Conrads works to some other writers styles whenever I am capable of doing so despite of my poor knowledge of Conrads contemporaries and despite of the fact that I was unable to get hold of such works as Conrad and His Contemporaries which surely would have been useful. My sources for carrying out this task are Conrad himself, his critics and my own opinions/interpretations of the two works by Conrad. Joseph Conrad In dealing with the life of Joseph Conrad I will focus on the period before he settled in England and started his actual written material career and so I will not present his life after his trip to the Congo and nor will I deal with how it affected him afterwards. I take this approach simply because in my opinio... ...r to be able to understand what is happening. In conclusion, both The Secret Agent and Heart of Darkness are broadly speaking based on reality the former on a historical incident and the latter on Conrads experiences of Congo. Both works h ave surprisingly oftentimes in common and, in my opinion, are also great works of art. Works Cited Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 1902. New York capital of Delaware Publications Inc., 1990. Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent (1907) New York Dover Publications Inc., 1990. Fleishman, Avrom. Condrads Politics Community and Anarchy in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad. Baltimore, Maryland The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. OPrey, Paul. Introduction, Heart of Darkness. (Harmondsworth Penguin, 1983). Warner, Oliver Joseph Conrad Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York, Toronto. 1950.