Wall of Culture and Foreignness

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"Amy Foster" by Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad, in his short stories “Amy Foster” and “Heart of Darkness,” tests some characters how far one can accept foreign culture. In “Amy Foster,” the protagonist Amy Foster encounters a foreigner “Yanko Goorall,” who survives a shipwreck. Amy, living in remote country in England, has no experience of seeing a foreigner since “she was born in the village, and had never been further away from it” (152). Amy first accepts Yanko with compassion and love, attracted by their similarity of ‘strangeness.’ However, after Amy marries Yanko, she fears the difference between their cultures which Amy cannot understand and she rejects Yanko, leaving him die alone in the end. In “Heart of Darkness,” Kurtz, an ivory trader goes to Africa to find ivory. It is true that Kurtz, as a foreigner, holds power over natives because of his skills in finding ivory. However, Kurtz loses self-control that he becomes mad and ill in foreign land and eventually dies. Conrad uses Amy and Kurtz as test cases of how far men can embrace foreignness.

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