Feminine identity and The ethics in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of darkness
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This paper analyzes the feminine identity and the ethics of care through Joseph Conrad’s Heart of darkness. Feminine identity, a concept opposite to the traditional self, raises an alternative for harmonious coexistence within feminine paradigm. In Heart of darkness, Marlow, who recognizes a helmsman as a human being, forms feminine identity out of the male-centered self. After building a ‘concrete’ relationship with the helmsman, he comes to have a thoughtful sensibility by abandoning the logical reason. Malow’s awakening, moreover, reaches its peak by women. He acknowledges the limitation of a male-centered thinking when facing two other women. At this moment his dichotomous thinking on each flowed women collapses, so that he could avoid the conceptual confrontation of civilization/savagery and men/women. In light of Gilligan’s theory, Marlow proves that he is not a sexist or imperial advocate but a person of empathy with others. His intention of his lie to Kurtz’s fiancée is to protect her from unnecessary pain, not to shame her as her theory. Feminine identity leads to ‘coexistence’ with others through the sensitivity of care for others.
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This paper analyzes the feminine identity and the ethics of care through Joseph Conrad’s Heart of darkness. Feminine identity, a concept opposite to the traditional self, raises an alternative for harmonious coexistence within feminine paradigm. In Heart of darkness, Marlow, who recognizes a helmsman as a human being, forms feminine identity out of the male-centered self. After building a ‘concrete’ relationship with the helmsman, he comes to have a thoughtful sensibility by abandoning the logical reason. Malow’s awakening, moreover, reaches its peak by women. He acknowledges the limitation of a male-centered thinking when facing two other women. At this moment his dichotomous thinking on each flowed women collapses, so that he could avoid the conceptual confrontation of civilization/savagery and men/women. In light of Gilligan’s theory, Marlow proves that he is not a sexist or imperial advocate but a person of empathy with others. His intention of his lie to Kurtz’s fiancée is to protect her from unnecessary pain, not to shame her as her theory. Feminine identity leads to ‘coexistence’ with others through the sensitivity of care for others.
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