LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 22:7 July 2022
ISSN 1930-2940

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Mystic Journey –
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and
Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop

Dr. A. Kalyani
Advisor
Vellore Institute of Technology
Chennai
drkalyanianbu@gmail.com


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In Journey to the Interior, Margaret Atwood recaptures the challenges of journeys. To quote,

Mostly that travel is not the easy going from point to point, a dotted line on a map, location plotted on a square surface but that I move surrounded by a tangle of branches, a net of air and alternate light and dark, at all times; that there are no destinations apart from this.

Focusing on the hardships, challenges, and discouragements of the journey the poem also underlines the journey of the heart. This echoes the experiences of Marlow of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a story of a man’s adventure, through danger, mystery, suspense, escape, exotic background, plots and intrigues and unexpected attack. Marlow’s journey is an obstacle course and the obstacles are not only physical. But also emotional and spiritual.

Heart of Darkness is an artistic projection of Conrad’s journey to Congo. For continent is a journey within a journey. Marlow’s Journey through darkness is a journey into the psyche of the natives, the white men, Kurtz, and his own self. Each incident and character and their move represents an aspect or a stage of Marlow’s penetration into the mystery of the human heart. The journey to Congo is finally not a journey into the darkness but of illumination. The adventures of Marlow explore the human heart. In fact it is a journey to the psyche.


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In this active and bewildering age, when we have difficulty in the finding our road to our spiritual destination. Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop proves to be a handbook. From revolution to resolution, from resolution to realization, and from realization to redemption, the road of faith stretches into the future for the priests Bishop Latour and Vaillant who boldly explore its possibilities. They see its promises become actualities, and experience the redemptive power of God that lifts them from sordid depression and frustration into a career of peace and great accomplishment.

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Dr. A. Kalyani
Advisor
Vellore Institute of Technology
Chennai
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