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3. Compare and contrast the different forms of narration in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and explain how each author used the genre to convey a theme
related to imperialism.

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Story: short story, with few characters and a quick ending. Legend: narratives that mix real and supernatural events. Myth: fantastic story that explains the origin of a place or an event. Novel: real or fictitious narrative, much longer and more complex than a short story.

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Can anyone know the whole truth about imperialism? Today, most people agree that the greed and violence of the Age of Imperialism had lasting negative effects on the world, but few of us fully understand how important those effects are. One way to gain some understanding is by studying the critiques of imperialism by imperialists themselves. For example, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels portrays pride in English values as foolish, and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Suggests that imperialism is greedy, violent, and ineffective. Swift and Conrad use their respective genres, satire and frame narrative, to critique imperialism, but both critiques are limited by the writers' cultural assumptions. In Gulliver's Travels, Swift uses satire to point out the arrogance of English people's assumptions about their own superiority. In one section of the book, "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms," Gulliver arrives in a land where horses act respectful and civilized. Gulliver finds it difficult to understand how "brute beasts" can act this way. This phrase is an example of the irony used in satire: Swift uses the word brute, which suggests violence and irrationality, to describe beings that are peaceful and rational. Gulliver decides that the people

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