Marlow's and Kurtz's journey up the Congo River in Heart of Darkness also has similarities to another work by Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage, in which Aeneas is stranded on the shore of Libya and meets the African queen Dido.Joseph Conrad was born in Berdychiv, a region that was part of Poland before he was born, was part of Russia at the time he was born, and is today part of Ukraine.
Charles Marlow describes a character as a "papier-mâché Mephistopheles", a reference to the Faust legend. Some intertextual interpretations of Heart of Darkness have suggested that Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus may have influenced Conrad. Conrad's father was a translator of William Shakespeare who doubtless would have known of Marlowe's work as well. Marlow's name may be inspired by the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. But Marlow was not typical and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze." Inspiration In Heart of Darkness the omniscient narrator observes that "yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut.
Once introduced, Marlow then proceeds to tell the main tale, creating a story-within-a-story effect. There is also an omniscient narrator who introduces Marlow and some of the other characters. The stories are not told entirely from Marlow's perspective, however. Raymond Malbone considers that Marlow is the main character in Lord Jim, as "the theme of the novel rests in what Jim's story means to Marlow rather than in what happens to Jim."
In Lord Jim, Marlow narrates but has a role in the story, finding a place for Jim to live, twice. Marlow narrates several of Conrad's best-known works such as the novels Lord Jim (1900) and Chance (1913), as well as the framed narrative in Heart of Darkness (1899), and his short story " Youth" (1898). Charles Marlow is a fictional English seaman and recurring character in the work of novelist Joseph Conrad.
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