Essays 1 - 30
the traditional society to fall apart," observes G.D. Killam. "Okonkwo is unable to adopt to the changes that accompany colonialis...
In five pages the twentieth century relevance of Heart of Darkness is considered in this historical perspective of Joseph Conrad's...
a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker--may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was...
with this great solitude" (73). Kurtz allows all of his most primitive desires to run rampant. The experience of being away from a...
Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...
with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...
on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...
The concept of heroism is compared in this paper consisting of 5 pages and there is a consensus that it is a concept that is beyon...
This paper consists of 3 pages and considers the emotional elements that characterize these novels by Chinua Achebe and Joseph Con...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
From among the leaders of the invaders we selected eighty to interview. They were the most prosperous and therefore those with th...
In two pages this essay considers post 1945 socioeconomic and political factors that resulted in the end of European colonialism....
for furthering their own cultures. In this respect globalization is perhaps something that could be equated with neighbors trading...
tactics. There is a great disparity between the haves and the have nots. The health conditions are horrible with no running water ...
how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...
difference in the narrative techniques the authors have used. For Austen there is an immediate theme set up, a perspective that of...
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...
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...
become a renegade, a murderer, and set himself up as a sort of king over the natives of the region. Conrad makes the exploitation...
"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...
the irony of the Congo River, which is described as the antithesis of the Thames, which is the location from which Marlow tells th...
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...
limited at best. The average American will probably not ever venture off her shores. Often, the more technologically advanced cult...
that no manipulation of light and pose could have con- veyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed re...
merely oppressed and used the natives. Kurtz is a man who is very diverse and very intelligent. He is a powerful speaker, a poet, ...
darkest impulses are given free reign. Through the eyes of Marlow, Conrad makes it clear that Kurtzs nineteenth century notions of...
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...