Horror, Horror
H.P. Lovecraft's " the oldest and the strongest emotion of mankind is fear of unknown" may be told within a different context and content, in spite of that it implies 'the real' J. Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a kind of story about unknown, that is more violent and different from the fear, but releases the horror. Although it can be related with ethic and colonialism by a conjunction it's more about the characters themselves entirely. Although colonialists (the self) tried to rotate Africa to a symbolic frame to be named. Africa was the other, which could not be described, tamed and familiarized, so couldn't be expired, reversed binary oppositions of the West. Africa is neither A or nor B, but uncanny where the rational and irrational, named and unnamed, evil and good, sane and insane was got together, and with it's characters it made colonialist confused because of even not knowing their (the self) places and side. So it's a shallow, dark, wild and dreadful part which is neccesarry to destroy to be named. African people is so distant to western oriented culture and society as if they're aliens of a distant planet. Think of Marlow and others descriptions, are remarkable about the savages and the nature of Africa. (Laterly, this w
The self is described with the other. If you wound your essential parts of your identity is ruined and you can not revealed. Kurtz externalized his own violence and primitive desires onto Africa. but only primitive nature of mankind and basic desires such as violence, survival, sexuality, and emotions like hate and fear, how will the self describes and establishes itself against the other ? Probably the self and the other will be the same things, in the case of this condition. He realized the empty object of the desire while he was pursuiting his desire even in spite of shattering or losing something through even his life and identity. In related to this part, Kurz denies with his shadow and demonic identity for a long time, but in the heart of darkness where the superego may be bannished, there is no need to keep them inside, so return to the repressed came back naturally. Absence rather than presence can be show us more things then presence itself shows us alone. Knowledge is like an Enlightment thing taht is identificated with light and God. Knowledge may be too heavy to lift, and too much knowledge means you're equalized with God (Kurtz for African people) The matter of fact the knowledge of identity can bring you the real and the death, think of an examples of Oedipus, Alan Parker's Angel Heart, H. It's more like chinese dialectic's yin yang, but the difference is the dialectics elements are embraced. It's like a defend mechanism to escape not to wound. I think, 'A hell in a heaven' can be told for Kurts character.
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