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"unhappy savages" passes by, offers a reminder to his audience onboard the Nellie (and to readers) that initially seems completely...

the Suppression of Savage Customs in which he claims that the white man in Africa must "necessarily appear to them [savages] in th...

In five pages this novel by Joseph Conrad is examined in a cultural consideration of racism that was inherent during the times in ...

In four pages this paper compares the novel with the film. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

In five pages this paper compares the themes of justice and human cruelty within the context of these works. There are 2 sources ...

In five pages this paper examines the novel by Joseph Conrad within the context of modernism. Three sources are cited in the bibl...

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of characterization, plot, and theme. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

intent of exploiting its people, resources, or land. This definition fairly well characterizes the attitude with which the British...

Kurtz, as one of the main indictments against imperialism. As this suggests, while granted that there is a much to praise in Conra...

147). Marlows initial reaction is in keeping with the African environment and the darkness that has touched his life, as it did Ku...

African author Chinua Achebe argues that the extended metaphor that Conrad uses to relate his principal theme is founded on the vi...

lies on his or her resume, and the employer finds out, the employer will feel wronged. Usually, it ends in the employees dismissal...

weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...

be. To say that someone is remarkable seems to elevate him above the crowd. Why does Marlow consider Kurtz a remarkable man? Brudn...

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

objective to amass a fortune while at the same time rule with an iron fist, author Adam Hochschild (1999) illustrates how one of t...

power in many ways. The more titles the greater the power. And, in a social perspective as it involves the government system, this...

come to it, sure enough. The people had vanished. (Conrad Part I). This is a premonition of sorts about what he will eventually fi...

...preserve me!"(Tablet IX, Column I, 3-12). This forces him to begin to consider his own mortality, and for the first tim...

suspend his judgment. Ironically, what Kurtz has discovered horrifies Marlow and it seems to haunt him. He went in search of him...

the traditional society to fall apart," observes G.D. Killam. "Okonkwo is unable to adopt to the changes that accompany colonialis...

back to tell the tale. He is older than his years, and his words are full of sadness and bittersweet regret(Adelman). His experien...

will discover and find, much of which is seen in things that are black and things that are white. This critic notes that, "Signs ...

of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....

"Heart of Darkness" about Marlows river journeys in the Congo, questions of the inhumane treatment of Africans began to surface. T...

139). While he observes the effects of the slave trade and colonial avarice firsthand and protests such injustice, he never makes...

(Hunter G01). Kurtz is near death, ravaged by his experiences and close to being insane (Hunter G01). Kurtz has not civilized the ...

the boy some cookies. Marlow meets one of the men from his company, on the street and joins him in his hut office, but after a sh...

helmsman awfully... Perhaps you will think it passing strange, this regret for a savage who was of no more account than a grain of...