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This dissertation discusses the relationship existing betweenA Passage to IndiaandHeart ofDarknessby focusing on the process of rewriting in fiction. In terms of a range of criticaltheories, it throws light on the similarities and divergences operating between the two piecesof writing. Thus, Forster’s text is discussed as a response to and a repetition of Conrad’s.Thepoint here, however, is not merely to show the way Forster’s novel echoes Conrad’s, but theway that discourses, as a set of statements involving certain assumptions and insights aboutspecificissues,are transposed into one another.In this connection, the main focus is on howForster uses his novel not only to reject the period’s prevailing values in life and art, but alsoto defiantly assert his difference and re-appropriates this rebellious tone to criticise theWestern mind.The two novels are examined and made to interact with each other in terms ofdialogical and intertextual principles. In other words, they ‘dialogise’ with each other byadopting and rejecting each other’s discourse, and by conveying the two authors’ particularways of seeing the world and social realities. This relationship is examined from a number ofperspectives: Marxist, Feminist and Psychoanalytical.In the light of these theories, the studyaims, broadly, at showing how Forster uses his text as an effective instrument to oppose thecolonial assumptions and enterprise as Conrad did in his book, thus, exposing the wholecolonial system as an ideological set of beliefs.
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