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Heart of Darkness

this one sees that within the interior of Africa, or as Marlow moves into the interior there are signs of what Imperialism has don...

Heart of Darkness/Imperialism

that characterized European imperialism in the late nineteenth century. Both Marlow, the narrator of the story, and Kurtz their in...

Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Light vs. Dark

1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...

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...

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 ...

Literature Considerations of Global Issues

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

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Compared

In six pages these famous literary works are compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Seneca's On Noise and Plutarch's A Consolation to His Wife

that as long as the noise is a sort of general background roar, he can ignore it, but when he can make out individual voices, it b...

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx and Silas Marner by George Eliot

one way or another, and men who perhaps want something more out of life. With Quoyle we have a man who moves to Newfoundland an...

Poetry, Literature: Influence of Victorian Society, World War I

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...

Modernist Literature and Definitive Characteristics

In nine pages this paper examines the definitive characteristics of modernist literature in a consideration of works by Virginia W...

Kurtz and Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

and explored his own intellectual and moral identity (p. 122). This suggests that Conrad created Marlow in order to explore his ow...

Women's Roles As Seen by Woolf and Conrad

size." This, of course, refers to the way that women have, traditionally, bolstered the ego of the man in their lives. The man per...

Comparative Analysis of Heart of Darkness and Ancient Mariner

instead about the ancient mariner and his tale of woo. This is where the Mariner story and Heart of Darkness begin to draw s...

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, ...

Old and New Hearts of Darkness

The Francis Ford Coppola motion picture Apocalypse Now served as a remake of Robert Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This paper compare...

Things Fall Apart by Achebe and Heart of Darkness by Conrad

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

Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Kurtz, as one of the main indictments against imperialism. As this suggests, while granted that there is a much to praise in Conra...

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...

Consideration of the Quote 'No Man is an Island'

In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...

Fielding & Inchbald / Morality

A 5 page paper comparing Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story with Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews. The paper concludes that the d...

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...

Romanticism, Age of Reason, and an Interior Dialogue of Joseph Conrad

on the storys being about Marlow, rather than Kurtz, regarding it as a journey into Marlows consciousness. The student should als...

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...

Hat Motif in The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the novella by Joseph Conrad in an examination of what is symbolically implied by the stowaway Legg...

Time Themes in The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

radicals that Verloc has been spying upon. Now, time is not his friend. The element of time is narrowed considerably after this ...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Boundaries and Limitations

the irony of the Congo River, which is described as the antithesis of the Thames, which is the location from which Marlow tells th...

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 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...

'An Image of Africa' and 'Heart of Darkness'

This paper consists of 3 pages and considers the emotional elements that characterize these novels by Chinua Achebe and Joseph Con...