KURTZ AS MAMMON: AN ARCHETYPAL ANALYSIS OF JOSEPH CONRAD'S HEART OF DARKNESS.

Though the archetypal analysis of a given text was a popular tool available with the scholars during the decades annmd 1930s and 1940s, its utility as a scholastic method could be rediscovered even. to this day as we have a plethora of other critical theories. The present study intends to examine Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness in the light of this observation with a view tojuxtaposing eco-chticism, environmental studies and mythical methods-all in one In the paper, the Biblical character of Mammon, appropriated via Milton, offers a critical space for inquiring into the projection of Conrad's Kurtz with the possibilities for a discourse on environmental destruction. The recurrence of themes and concurrent metaphorical similarities of the characters Kurtz in Heart of Darkness and Mammon, a character in the Bibleasone among the fallen angels shares the similar archetypal patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]