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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...

Racism, Charlie Marlow, and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

in terms of black and white, but this should not necessarily be construed as a racial connotation. He enjoyed the tranquility of ...

“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...

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...

Kurtz as Hero in The Heart of Darkness

that would make him a hero. He does not make powerful decisions and he does not truly step outside any realm within himself or soc...

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...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

4 Works of Literature and the Themes of Exploitation and Power

In eight pages this paper discusses exploitation followed by power renewal in A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, Continental Dri...

Themes of Empathy in Shelley, Conrad, and Borowski

This paper examines various human-rights themes seen in Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness,' and Borowski's 'Th...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Symbolism

In five pages this paper analyzes Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad in terms of the author's employment of dual symbolism. There...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and the Character of Marlow

In five pages this paper evaluates the actions of Marlow in Joseph Marlow's Heart of Darkness in order to determine whether or not...

Comparing Two Works by Joseph Conrad

then. He gets a very powerful and intriguing adventure when he attempts to pull a ladder into the ship, only to discover a man att...

Literature and the Nature of Good vs. Evil

goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...

The True Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness, the seminal masterpiece by Joseph Conrad, is a study in cruelty and the degeneration of man into beast as the t...

Literature and Social Visions

In five pages this paper discusses how the social visions of the authors are featured in The Red and the Black by Stendhal and Hea...

Narrative Evolution

In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

Apocolypse Now Film by Director Francis Ford Coppola

In five pages this paper considers the film's parallels with Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and also discusses influences of T...

Opening the Mind's Door in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In six pages this research paper presents the argument that in Heart of Darkness, Conrad sought to open reader's minds to the impe...

Imperialism Symbols in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

It is no surprise that Conrad was a critic of British colonialism in Africa. This was not a bitter disregard for the whole country...

Western Civilization's Failure in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In 5 pages this paper examines how Western civilization's failure is conveyed by Joseph Conrad by the characterization of Kurtz in...

Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the fact that the universe makes perfect sense if only one views it from the proper angle (McLynn PG). Basically, it is the langu...

Civilization Through the Eyes of Freud and Conrad

Sigmund Freud and Joseph Conrad had very similar views of civilization. This analysis deals with Freud's Civilization and Its Disc...

Literature and Modernism

In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...

Jane Tompkins' Revolutionary Approach to Literary Criticism

In eighteen pages this paper supports Jane Tompkins' suggestions that literature instruction should address the students' minds an...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and the 'Quest' for Self

In six pages this paper analyzes the quest for self in a discussion of Charlie Marlow's enlightenment in Heart of Darkness by Jose...

T.S. Eliot's 'Waste Land' and Its Cultural Influences

In a paper consisting of 10 pages the aethetic, scientific, and sociopolitical influences on Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is considere...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In eight pages this paper discusses Joseph Conrad's battles with depression and how this affected his novel Heart of Darkness. Ni...

Kurtz and Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In five pages Kurtz and Marlow's relationship is the focus of this Heart of Darkness character analysis. There are 3 sources cite...

A Critique of Imperialism, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

of human achievement, both intellectually and morally. This attitude is inherent in Heart of Darkness when Conrad describes the id...