Exotic Representation of Africa in H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines
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The present research work basically focuses on the exotic representation of Africa
in the novel King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard. The author represents Africa as
a place of exotic landscape and its inhabitants as untamed savage. Focusing on this theme
he has presented the African landscape having extreme climate and rugged topographical
features. His native character ‘Gagool’ has lived for hundred of years and possesses the
power of black magic.Another character ‘Twala’,the one-eyed King of Kukuanal and is
portrayed as wild and irrational creature, who rules his people without any sense of good
governance and sacrifices hundreds of people in the name of God. Presenting Africa as
an exotic land, Haggard shows the Africans in need of Europeans to move them on the
path of civilization.