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

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

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

appears to be an observer in many ways, merely retelling a tale, Willard is a man who is driven by some uncontrollable force. It i...

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

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

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

"Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half efface...

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 ...

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

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

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

conflict in both "Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now." In the book, it occurs between the main characters. In the movie, it ...

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

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

with this great solitude" (73). Kurtz allows all of his most primitive desires to run rampant. The experience of being away from a...

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

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

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

the dream-sensation, the co-mingling of absurdity, surprise and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt". Conrad urges hi...

In 5 pages the atavism themes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and William Golding's Lord of the Flies are contrasted and comp...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

making of an immense success" (Conrad Chapter III p. NA). Marlow could not deny such facts he really had no knowledge of, and yet ...

an employee of the Company who has become erratic, and bring him home. In so doing, Marlow has to face his own "heart of darkness"...