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"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...

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...

Celtic Mythology and the Morrigan Legends

or most, of the myths surrounding Morrigan she is seen, as noted, as a woman of battle. She was there with every war of the Celts ...

From the Light into the Darkness of Japanese History

from one epoch to another. The title symbolized customs of the past, but it could also be adapted to whatever future social or ec...

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. ...

Literature and Modernism

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

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...

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...

Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the fact that the universe makes perfect sense if only one views it from the proper angle (McLynn PG). Basically, it is the langu...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Imperialism Symbols in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

It is no surprise that Conrad was a critic of British colonialism in Africa. This was not a bitter disregard for the whole country...

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...

Narrative Evolution

In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

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...

Metaphors of Darkness and Light in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses how the characters in this Shakespearean tragedy are better understood through the metaphors of...

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...

Symbolism of Darkness and Light in East of Eden by John Steinbeck

presenting us with a violent and angry man who cannot be all good because he cannot see truth nor can he forgive. The father pr...

The Journey in Apocalypse and Heart of Darkness

bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is st...

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler and the Themes of Deformity and Injury

The reason Koestler has given these injuries to the man who once led the revolution is that he is now aged, useless, and must serv...

2 Works of Ernest Hemingway Analyzed

may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...