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1. Representation of Africa in Heart of Darkness & Things Fall apart.
REPRESENTATION OF AFRICA IN
‘HEART OF DARKNESS’ & ‘THINGS FALL
APART’.

2. INDEX

3. Things Fall apart Heart of Darkness
• 1899
• Joseph Conrad
• White man journey in Africa,
Story follows white man
• Marlow is narrator of the story
• Imperialism is at the center of the
novel
• Story focused on the Marlow &
Kurtz characters
• The Hollowness of Civilization &
imperialism.
• Image of mid 19th century Africa
• Africans as “Savages”
• Presented as Dark image of Africa
• 1958
• Chinua Achebe
• Black man journey in Africa
• Modern African novel in English
• Okonkwo is narrator
• Story takes place in Africa during the
time of Colonialism
• Story focused on the character
Okonkwo
• His experience in colonization Africa
• Image of mid 20th century Africa
• Igbo Culture
• Presented the real picture of Africa

4. Heart of DarknessThings Fall apart

5. Things Fall apart Heart of Darkness

6. • The Hypocrisy of
Imperialism
• Madness as a Result of
imperialism
• The Absurdity of Evil
• Power, Exploration &
identity
• Fate and fear will
• Women & Femininity
• Dehumanization & Racism
• Good vs. Evil
• Balance of traditional
masculine and feminine
values
• Continual and inevitable
change
• The dynamic between the
individual and society
• Irony (situational)
• Conformity vs. individuality
• Tradition vs. Modernity
• Action vs. Inaction
• Power, Knowledge,
Education and Religion
Things Fall apart Heart of Darkness

8. Things Fall apart Heart of Darkness
• Art of conversation, structured
and civilized society. (Social
norms, Social structures).
• Title of the novel comes from a
line in W. B. Yeats' poem "The
Second Coming"
• First person narration
(Okonkwo). Good, lightness in
the village.
• Blackman point of view and Igbo
culture as important
• Achebe claims that the image of
Africa which is portrayed in
Heart of Darkness is not
because of African people’s lack
of awareness and knowledge
but it’s a result of colonialism.
• First person narration
(Marlow).
• White man Point of view and
effect of imperialism.
• Darkness & Cruelty

9. • Okonkwo’s story – as well as the distinctions between
“motherland” and “fatherland” and “matriarchal” vs.
“patriarchal” perspectives in the text.
• Marlow story has only for self center and cravity for
“fatherland”.
• The main purpose of colonial system and rulings to Native
land people. It was strictly follows to Africans people. It is
domain of those people have exotics and they are in the
domination and exploitation of the continent their culture.
• Colonial was educated for subordination, exploitation, the
creation of mental confusion and the development of
underdevelopment in Africa.

10. Things Fall
Apart
Heart Of
Darkness

11. Things Fall apart Heart of Darkness
“When the British came to
Ibo land, for instance, at the
beginning of the 20th
century, and defeated the
men in pitched battles in
different places, and set up
their administrations, the
men surrendered. And it
was the women who led the
first revolt” .
(Nwoye, Ezinma, Ekwefi)
-Chinua Achebe
“Being a woman is a terribly
difficult task, since it
consists principally in
dealing with men”.
(Aunt, Kurtz’s girl friend )
-Joseph Conrad

12. • What is ironic about Okonkwo’s feelings for Ikemefuna,
compared to his feelings for Nwoye? – Okonkwo.
• Aunt and The Intended often conflict to him
assumption that women are naive and idealistic.
Women are the beneficiaries of much of resulting
wealth and they become objects upon which men can
display thier own success and status. – Marlow.
• Marlow told to Kurtz last words was : Horror ! Horror !
Horror !.

13. • “Africa as “Other world”
• Accuses Joseph Conrad of being "a
thorough going racist" for depicting
Africa as "the other world”.
• “Antithesis of Europe and there of
civilization”(Considered as racist)
• African people did not hear of
culture for the first time from
Europeans.

14. • Edward Said says that
“Heart of Darkness works so
effectively because its politics
and aesthetics are, so to
speak, imperialist, which in
the closing years of the
nineteenth century seemed to
be at the same time an
aesthetic, politics and even
epistemology inevitable an
unavoidable”
• The idea of “OTHER” and
“US”

15. • “Their existence & exoticism enable his self contemplation. This
kind of Dehumanization is harder to identify than colonial violence
or open racism. While Heart of Darkness offers a powerful
condemnation of the hypocritical operation of imperialism, it also
presents a set of issues surrounding race that is ultimately
troubling”- Joseph Conrad
• “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt
will always glorify the hunter.”- Chinua Achebe.

16. WORKS CITED
• Achebe., Chinua. Things fall apart. Nigerian, 1985.
• Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 1899.
• Wikipedia. 12 January 2016 <http://www.Edward said-wikipedia.com>.