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Pain and Healing in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

brother. This is where Baldwin sets up another beautiful metaphor: the ice. "A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept...

Setting the Stage for Imagery and Violence in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

In six pages this paper examines how the stage for violence is set through imagery in this tragic play by William Shakespeare in a...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the Motifs of Blindness, Sight, Darkness, and Light

In ten pages this paper examines Shakespeare's characterizations of Lord and Lady Macbeth regarding how they enable him to masterf...

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...

Jane Tompkins' Revolutionary Approach to Literary Criticism

In eighteen pages this paper supports Jane Tompkins' suggestions that literature instruction should address the students' minds an...

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...

Taking Chances in The Stand, Desperation, and Insomnia by Stephen King

this is the same evil that invades the minds and souls of killer postal workers, schoolyard murderers, and child abusers? King al...

Literature and Modernism

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

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...

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...

T.S. Eliot's 'Waste Land' and Its Cultural Influences

In a paper consisting of 10 pages the aethetic, scientific, and sociopolitical influences on Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is considere...

Comparing Nadine Gordimer and Joseph Conrad

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares The Moment the Gun Went Off by Nadine Gordimer and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Con...

Disorder and Moral Darkness in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the tragedy of disorder and moral darkness that characterizes the play and considers the roles L...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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

Kurtz and Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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

Human Nature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

own view of human nature was that it was filled with darkness at virtually every level. Layers Upon Layers Multi-layered storytel...

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"...

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 ...

The Prophetess by Njabulo Ndebele, Light and Darkness Images

encompassed in darkness. Ndebele uses phrases and words such as the following: He was anxious about where the woman was...

Comparative Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'The Black Cat'

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

Monster's Creation in the Writings of Joseph Conrad and Mary Shelley

so moved by the portrayal of Adam that he begins to identify with Adam. Like Adam at the beginning of creation, he, too, is lonely...

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...

Joseph Conrad's Writings and Natural Africa's Role

to cultures outside of our own is limited at best. The average American will probably not ever venture off her shores. Often, the ...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

Children's Stories Analysis

this argument we see that the giant is the handicapped child. The entire town is frightened of him because he is a giant. He does ...

Literary Depiction of Africa

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