Empire and Rce. Answers from Anya Tretyakova. H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness are two Victorian novels, which despite differing greatly in subject matter and genre, nevertheless share many common tropes that bear further examination. The Time Machine, a work of Science Fiction, one of the earliest of its kind, sees the protagonist on a journey through time; seemingly travelling into the future, yet encountering a planet and inhabiting ‘civilisation’ which instead appears to be regressing into prehistory with the passage of time. Heart of Darkness, a symbolic, frame narrative is harder to place in terms of genre, but can be read as a transitional text between Victorian and Modernist styles; here, the protagonist is also on a journey, which even though it is only through physical space, has all the hallmarks of pseudo-time travel. In Heart of Darkness, the protagonist, Charles Marlow journeys into Africa, ... Read the rest of this post
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