Compares and contrasts Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”.
This paper is based on two books, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. The paper discusses the two books and compares and contrasts the writing styles of the two authors, as well as the similarities and differences in the two stories.
“Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a novel based on the journey of Marlow, a thirty two year old European, into the Congo and was published in 1899. The book is an overview of Marlow’s account as he travels to Africa and how his belief in the good and the bad changes during this journey. In Africa, he finds inhumanity, prejudice, destruction and greed and to him, the African people appear like savages. But instead of making any effort to help these people, Marlow demonstrates the typical European attitude that white men are superior to black.”