马洛的困惑与出路——从新历史主义看《黑暗的心》

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浙江财经学院本科生毕业论文（设计）

Marlow’s Confusion and Solution

-- A New Historicist Reading of Heart of Darkness

Abstract: This thesis is to probe into Marlow’s confusion and his solution, and to delve

into the relations between text and history as well as the subversion and consolidation on the

writer’s part, along the journey toward the darkness of the Earth and human heart through

textual analysis from a new historicist perspective, putting forward its own ideas that

Marlow’s confusion is also the process of subversion from the misconception that

imperialism is a benevolent project of “civilization” at that time, and that Marlow’s solution

is to resort to human introspection and self-discipline, which is more or less served as

consolidation of colonialism because Conrad could not entirely break free from the restraint

of his times, and that subversion and consolidation is a perfect circle insinuating the

interactive relationship between text and history.

Key words: New Historicism, Heart of Darkness, subversion, containment

马洛的困惑与出路

——从新历史主义看《黑暗的心》

摘要：本文旨在从新历史主义视角分析《黑暗的心》,将这部小说置于殖民与权力

关系巩固及颠覆的复杂系统之内,进一步探讨马洛在寻找出路中的困惑。本文认为马洛

的困惑也是颠覆帝国殖民主义在当时被看作是高尚的文明使命的错觉,但受时代所限,

康拉德无法彻底摆脱当时意识形态的影响,因此马洛的出路只能是诉诸人类自律和自

省。颠覆与巩固由此形成了一个完美的循环,暗示着文本与历史间互动的关系。

关键词：新历史主义；《黑暗的心》；颠覆；巩固

浙江财经学院本科生毕业论文（设计）

Contents

0H本科生毕业论文................................................................................................................................32HI

1H马洛的困惑与出路 ——从新历史主义看《黑暗的心》...........................................................................33HI

2HContents.........................................................................................................................................................34HII

3H1. Introduction............................................................................................................................................ 35H1

4H1.1 About the Author.................................................................................................................. 36H1

5H1.2 About Heart of Darkness...................................................................................................... 37H2

6H1.3 About New Historicism........................................................................................................ 38H3

7H2. Marlow in Europe................................................................................................................................... 39H5

8H2.1 The 19th century Europe............................................................................................................. 40H5

9H2.1.1 History and Politics...................................................................................................................... 41H5

10H2.1.2 Cultural Issues.............................................................................................................................. 42H6

11H2.2 Marlow’s image in Europe........................................................................................................... 43H7

12H3. Marlow’s Confusion – Subversion......................................................................................................... 44H8

13H3.1 The Concept of Subversion in New Historicism............................................................................ 45H8

14H3.2 Marlow’s Subversion against his Times......................................................................................... 46H9

15H4. Marlow’s Solution – Containment ....................................................................................................... 47H16

16H4.1 The Concept of Containment in New Historicism ....................................................................... 48H16

17H4.2 Marlow’s Solution – Introspection...............................................................................................49H17

18H5. Conclusion............................................................................................................................................... 50H18

19HReferences ................................................................................................................................................... 51H20

浙江财经学院本科生毕业论文（设计）

1. 0BIntroduction

New Historicism is a theory applied to literature that suggests literature must be studied

and interpreted within the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic.

The theory arose in the 1980s, and with Stephen Greenblatt as its main proponent, became

quite popular in the 1990s. Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness when British Empire was

in the heyday. Such historical background undoubtedly exerted tremendous influence on

Conrad. This thesis is to probe into Marlow’s confusion as well as his solution along his

journey toward the darkness of the Earth and human heart through textual analysis from the

perspective of New Historicism.

1.1 About the Author

Joseph Conrad was a Poland-born English writer who enjoyed world fame. He was born

on December 3 in 1857 in Russian-controlled Poland. Conrad’s father, a Polish patriot and

political activist, took part in a movement to free Poland from Russian control and was

arrested and imprisoned soon after the family arrived. After his parents’ death of disease, he

lived with his relatives in Krakow where he received education.

As a boy, he embraced the dream of sailing the high seas. His fascination with the

unknown led him to pinpoint Africa in an uncharted map and declared, “When I grow up, I

will go there.”(Conrad, 1999:9) His dream later came true. He traveled to Marseilles when he

was seventeen and spent the next twenty years on the deck as a sailor. He signed on to an

English ship in 1878, and eight years later he became a British subject. In 1889, he began to

write his first novel, Almayer’s Folly, and began actively searching for a way to fulfill his

boyhood dream of traveling to the Congo. In 1890, out of work, broke, and eager for a chance

to realize his boyhood dream of exploring unknown central Africa, he accepted an assignment

to command a steamboat up the Congo River for the Belgian Company for Upper-Congo

Commerce. This company ranked as one of the late-nineteenth-century Europe’s most

successful and greedy traders in ivory. Steaming a thousand miles upriver from Kinshasa,

Conrad reached the company’s inner station. There he met an ailing agent named Georges

Antoine Klein, who may have been a model for the character Kurtz in Heart of Darkness.

Conrad’s time in Africa not only wreaked havoc on his health but also exerted profound

influence on his attitude towards colonialism. Then, he returned to England to recover. This

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