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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, Film, Identity, and Travel

conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...

Good and Bad of Human Nature as Portrayed in Literature

Swift, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, and "Heart of Darkness" by William Conrad. Gullivers Travels "Gullivers Travels" is a b...

Doubles in the Work of Woolf and Conrad

Africa is symbolic of delving into the darkest recesses of the human soul. Conrad reveals that when Kurtz came to the Congo he w...

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 ...

Novel and Film Adaptations of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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

Literary Depiction of Africa

limited at best. The average American will probably not ever venture off her shores. Often, the more technologically advanced cult...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Victorian Women

that no manipulation of light and pose could have con- veyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed re...

Gilgamesh and Kurtz in Heart of Darkness

merely oppressed and used the natives. Kurtz is a man who is very diverse and very intelligent. He is a powerful speaker, a poet, ...

Literature and Issues of Gender and Race

how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...

Africans and Africa in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

that Africa has on the Europeans in the story. His argument, therefore, it that imperialism is wrong, not so much because of what ...

Opening Sequence Analysis of the 1979 Film Apocalypse Now

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

Comparison of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

God had created an idyllic paradise for man, and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his exist...

Joseph Conrad's and Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques

difference in the narrative techniques the authors have used. For Austen there is an immediate theme set up, a perspective that of...

Kurtz as a Universal Conrad Character

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

English Literature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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"...

"Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now"

become a renegade, a murderer, and set himself up as a sort of king over the natives of the region. Conrad makes the exploitation...

“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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Concept of Modernism and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad II

In five pages romanticism and modernism are compared in this consideration of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. There is 1 sour...

Sensitive Heroes in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In six pages the sensitive heroes Stephen Daedalus in Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Marlow in Conrad's Heart of...

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...

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...