Colonialism and Imperialism - European Ideals in Heart of Darkness and

Emptiness of European Ideals Exposed in Heart of Darkness and The Hollow Men   Kurtz involves an unconventional situation in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men. Mr. Kurtz, he dead is the epigraph to The Hollow Men. Eliot attracts a conspicuous inference to Kurtz, the ethically empty man in Heart of Darkness. Left to his own gadgets, Kurtz submits shocking acts, for example, contracting human heads and performing awful forfeits. Kurtz is furnished with just the questionable feeling of good prevalence of his way of life and the longing to cultivate the locals (Dahl 34). This front rapidly disintegrates when confronted with the honorable yet savage ways offered by Africa. The disintegrating front just leaves an empty drained of wanted thoughts and ethics. This emptiness is the thing that Eliot expands on to build up his own concept of void. Kurtz is an adept case of the void of European goals that Eliot needed to uncover. T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men utilizes Conrad's Kurtz to implement the possibility of emptiness found in contemporary Western idea, in light of the fact that Kurtz is a model European and speaks to the thoughts of the cutting edge Western Everyman.  Kurtz is a prototypal European scholar and resident. He is the result of hopeful, dynamic, and idealistic idea (Dahl 34). Kurtz is a Renaissance man, being a performer, a painter, a writer, and a widespread virtuoso (71). So well does Kurtz play out the entirety of his obligations, Marlow never makes sense of Kurtz's actual occupation. Marlow can imagine Kurtz as a painter who composed for the papers just as a columnist who could paint (71). Kurtz's all inclusive ability reaches out to the field of governmental issues, where he could have been a breathtaking pioneer of an extraordinary gathering, in actuality of any gathering (71). Kurtz was profoundly regarded... ...rmany and later in Vietnam and Cambodia (Anderson 404). More then likely, Heart of Darkness was only a preface to the monstrosities that could be submitted with the continuation of European idea as it might have been. Eliot unequivocally says one of the subjects to Part V is the current rot of Eastern Europe (Roessel 55). Eliot based on this subject of good void in The Hollow Men, by having Kurtz and his activities be illustrative of contemporary European idea.  Works Cited Anderson, Walter E. Heart of Darkness: The Sublime Spectacle. College of Toronto Quarterly 57(3) (1998): 404-421. Dahl, James C. Kurtz, Marlow, Conrad and the Human Heart of Darkness. Studies in the Literary Imagination 1(2) (1968): 33-40. Roessel, David. Fellow Fawkes Day and the Versailles Peace in 'The Hollow Men'. English Language Notes 28(1) (1990): 52-58.  Â