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Contents Abstract in Chinese ………………………………………………………………..…...…i Abstract in English …………………………………………………………… .ii Chapter 1 Introduction………………………………………………….………………1 Chapter 2 Well-knitting Plot……………………………………………………………6 2.1 Adaptation of Narrative…………………………………………………………………….7 2.2 Addition and Alteration…9 2.2.1 The Beginning………………………………………………………………………9 2.2.2 The First Offshore Scene…………………………………………………………..10 2.2.3 The Killing of Chief……………………………………………………………….11 2.2.4 The Ending……………………………………………………………………..….12 Chapter 3 Transformation in the Characterization………………………………...13 3.1 Kilgore…………………………………………………………………………………….14 3.2 Willard and Kurtz………………………………………………………………………….15 3.3 Other Important Characters……………………………………………………………17 Chapter 4 Deepening of the Theme…………………………………………………….19 4.1 Continuing of the Theme………………………………………………………………19 4.2 Motifs…………………………………………………………………………21 4.2.1 Haze………………………………………………………..………………………21 4.2.2 Buffalo……………………………………………………………………………..23 4.2.3 Color……………………………………………………………………………….25 4.2.4 Sound………………………………………………………………………………26 4.3 Coppola and the Adaptation……………………………………………………………….28 Chapter 5 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………29 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………….31 Publications during the Postgraduate Program……………………………………..34 Acknowledgements iv Chapter1 Introduction Why do we read Conrad now? Reading his works has already become a principal strategy of attempting to discern the terms of contemporary existence. Since the beginning of the 21st century, things have taken a peculiarly Conradian turn. Just as William Faulkner said in 1963, “There is a new Conradism in the air” (Kaplan, 2005: xiii). Readers increasingly speak about him and his works from different viewpoints. Among them Heart of Darkness makes so much writ