SEARCH RESULTS

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

In 5 pages this paper examines how Western civilization's failure is conveyed by Joseph Conrad by the characterization of Kurtz in...

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...

The way in which Victor Frankenstein is presented in the first few chapters of the novel and whether he is depicted sympatheticall...

see them in the context of the society in which they originated. The Victorian view of criminality The commonly expressed public ...

would probably have forced him to consider the ramifications of his work. But since he has no one to answer to save his own opin...

This paper examines various human-rights themes seen in Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness,' and Borowski's 'Th...

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

This paper compares and contrasts these two classic literary works. This seven page paper has eight sources listed in the bibliog...

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

In five pages Kurtz and Marlow's relationship is the focus of this Heart of Darkness character analysis. There are 3 sources cite...

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

139). While he observes the effects of the slave trade and colonial avarice firsthand and protests such injustice, he never makes...

quite obvious, if one probes them more deeply, these characters reveal striking similarities worthy of analysis. Charlie Marlow i...

be. To say that someone is remarkable seems to elevate him above the crowd. Why does Marlow consider Kurtz a remarkable man? Brudn...

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

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

repulsive in appearance and Satan was transformed by his own evil, becoming increasing ugly as the poem proceeds. As this suggests...

doctor any way that he can, and begins to understand that harming those that the creator loves will harm the creator more than phy...

the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body" (Shel...

it. If it was possible to create a human being, why not? he never stopped to think about what the consequences were and whether he...

In 8 pages this paper examines how the 'grotesque' fascination is represented in literature in Carl Jung's theories, Reviving Ophe...

capacity of the individual to be expressed and to strengthen (Kirschenbaum, 2004, p. 116). In pursuing this line of thinking, Ro...

to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...

The protagonist of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the subject of this character analysis that includes Sigmund Freud's doubling p...

of all, the book begins as a series of letters by one "R. Walton" to "Mrs. Saville"; these letters comprise the first four chapter...

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

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...

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