A Stylistic Comparative Study of The Movie Avatar (2009) and Joseph Conrad’s (1899) Short Story ‘Heart of Darkness’

Abstract

This study aims at providing textual evidence that proves that there is a solid link between Conrad‘s short story ‗Heart of Darkness‘ and the Movie Avatar (2009) produced by James Cameron. The current research attempts to prove that the film inspired from the short story without mention the refrence which is considered as plagiarism by James Cameron. To this effect, the present paper attempts to determine whether there is link between the film Avatar (2009) and short story ‗Heart of Darkness‘by Conrad. In order to solve the aforementioned problematic, to analyse the movie shall used Van Leeuwen‘s model as well as Firth‘s model context of situation to analyse the short story. After analysis, the findings indicate that there is strong link between the movie Avatar (2009) and short story ‗Heart of Darkness‘. In other terms the movie Avatar (2009) is inspired from short story ‗Heart of Darkness‘