Research Paper on:
Literature Considerations of Global Issues

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the mobility of labor, capital, and technology. It is seen as the rapid change in technological developments that has resulted in re-defining the economic impact of worker skills, human  capital, and distribution of income. The role of literature is to provide a mirror image of the world, its cultures and conflicts in a way that adds meaning and  understanding to the processes of change and development. Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad that takes the reader into the heart of the global reality  and allows that the globalizing processes are in need of criticism. The story is centered on the transformation of the protagonist and, by extension, the colonial world. What  Marlowe sees and experiences is the decline of another person, another culture in the wake of change. The transformation of Marlowe is seen in the symbolism used by  Conrad as he goes from light to darkness and from the dream to the reality of the world. Marlowe, the protagonist, leads the reader into a world that he  himself describes as a dream, "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey  the dream-sensation, the co-mingling of absurdity, surprise and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt". Conrad urges his readers to go below the surface in investigating the consequences  of change, including the effects of westernization and, or, globalization. Speaking of his efforts to navigate the river, Marlow says, "When you have to attend to things of that  sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality - the reality, I tell you - fades. The inner truth is hidden" (103). Like the other two