• SUKUMAR MOHANTY

Abstract: Joseph Conrad’s most enticing work “Heart of Darkness (1899) has been regarded as a consequential novella in the canon of English literature and has been praised as a marvellous literary creation of all times. It’s about a voyage, a journey, an expedition up the Congo River into “one of the dark places on the earth”(Conrad, 7), that is the cold wild Congo, situated in the heart of Africa, by the story-teller Marlow, a psychologist cum philosopher who watches there, the marry dance of death-cold, fog, tempests, disease, and death”-“death skulking in the air, in the water, in the bushes”….(Conrad, 18,9), and finds a sophisticated civilized European Kurtz, transformed into the Supremo of the savages, and an incarnation of evil. A remarkable socialist, genius, “an emissary of pity, and science, and progress (Conrad, 20), who wanted to bring the light to the darkness in the best tradition of white Man’s burden, Kurtz now dogging after the greed of ivory, money and power. This paper will illustrate how Mistah Kurtz, a champion socialist turns into a champagne socialist and lives a luxurious life subjugating the savages of Africa.

Kurtz, evil, champagne, socialist, bourgeois, subjugate

"Mistah Kurtz; A Champagne Socialist: A Marxist Study to Joseph Conrad’s Novella, Heart of Darkness", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 4, page no.c154-c158, April-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2404219.pdf

"Mistah Kurtz; A Champagne Socialist: A Marxist Study to Joseph Conrad’s Novella, Heart of Darkness", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 4, page no. ppc154-c158, April-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2404219.pdf