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Coleridge and Byron, Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Darkness

personification of Death and Nightmare Life-in-Death; the sailors all dying and then their corpses reanimating, all of these image...

Conrad, Condorcet and Achebe

equality that will arise between nations, will speed up the advances of...sciences" which has "led us to so many useful and import...

Gabriel's Embracing of Homosexuality in The Fur Queen

Background The Fur Queen is the basis on which Gabriel adapts to life and the gay world while dealing with the horrific exp...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

Gilgamesh and Kurtz in Heart of Darkness

merely oppressed and used the natives. Kurtz is a man who is very diverse and very intelligent. He is a powerful speaker, a poet, ...

Customs of Chinese Marriage Since 1949 Introduction of Communism

from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...

Reaction Essay on Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

her family were forced to abide by Communist principles even - and especially - when they did not condone them from a personal per...

Open Society's Promise

a utopia. Everything would be better. People would be happy. Of course, most people today do not support the communism ideal. The...

Color Symbolism in "Heart of Darkness"

"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...

Karl Marx, Socialism, Communism And Class Struggle

economy; without its influence, the modern market as the global society knows it would not exist. The fundamental purpose of mone...

“Other” in Shakespeare’s Othello and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

to be successful. Iago does seem to make an impact on Roderigo at one point, however, when Roderigo claims imagines Desdemona and ...

Colonization and Self-Discovery: Shakespeare and Conrad

without power, who plays the role of the colonizer. He is a teacher and a controller of the story itself, thus he serves as a symb...

Heart of Darkness: Duality

understanding that perhaps all humanity possesses this inherently dark nature. In one excerpt from the novel one can see this st...

Villains in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Richard III

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

Evil and Self-Destruction in "Macbeth" and "Heart of Darkness"

home and sees his wife. He tells her of the prophesy and she immediately sees that the way for him to get the crown is to kill the...

Why did communism fail?

not dictate some of the things that manifest as a result of unscrupulous and greedy dictators. In evaluating the situation, a focu...

Heart of Darkness & Social Expectations

darkest impulses are given free reign. Through the eyes of Marlow, Conrad makes it clear that Kurtzs nineteenth century notions of...

Celtic Mythology and the Morrigan Legends

or most, of the myths surrounding Morrigan she is seen, as noted, as a woman of battle. She was there with every war of the Celts ...

Joseph Conrad's and Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques

difference in the narrative techniques the authors have used. For Austen there is an immediate theme set up, a perspective that of...

Sociologist Karl Marx's Life and Theories

of Christianity, and went to school. He would later have nothing to do with religion, even coining the phrase related to the idea ...

The Purpose and Reason for the End of Communism

years. Why? "In 1961 the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, made a speech predicting...

Depression According to Kay Redfield Jamison and William Styron

before the author has a chance to build a life with him. However, what comes across in Jamisons account is how this relationship p...

Darkness Visible by William Golding

takes an offhand remark of Pedigree concerning another student, Henderson, too literally and, interpreting the boy to be evil, wil...

Overview of Photosynthesis

the soil itself is nutrified. There are several limiting factors that influence photosynthesis and its effect in the plan...

"Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now"

become a renegade, a murderer, and set himself up as a sort of king over the natives of the region. Conrad makes the exploitation...

Communism in Mexico

following among the people. Further investigation should help to clarify which impression is correct. In doing so, well also see h...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

The Theme of Surveillance in Orwell's 1984

recorded today. With computer technology what it is today, it is difficult to escape the watchful eye of the government and the po...

From the Light into the Darkness of Japanese History

from one epoch to another. The title symbolized customs of the past, but it could also be adapted to whatever future social or ec...