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

(Anonymous Joseph Conrad 47.htm). In the beginning we Marlow as a very energetic and eager young man who wants adventure and excit...

this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...

us with darkness and alienation. We note that Sonnys brother is a teacher, and he feels himself to be successful. He feels that ...

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...

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

he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...

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

reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage" (Conrad 102). In Ellisons novel we see a young B...

which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...

and his lack of desire for monetary gain at their expense. What the student may wish to expound upon at this point is that man is ...

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

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

powerful culture, its own people, and its own history. All of these elements make for a land that is very rich but yet Marlow does...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

position to that of management, or even to that of an incredibly successful salesman/employee. His character was weak, and his int...

his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, i...

of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...

society around the McCarthy trials. It should be understood that the information presented only reflects some of the possibilities...

clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...

himself during the decade and a half he spent with the company. "The myth was that because you were black that you could not do c...

the financial statements. This sent investors scrambling. Nancy Temple was viewed as the culprit (by both the courts and observers...

II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...

and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...

shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...