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'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...

Comparative Analysis of Modernist Literary Characters in D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

In five pages modernist literature is examined in a contrasting and comparison of the characters Mabel featured in 'The Horse Deal...

Literature and Social Visions

In five pages this paper discusses how the social visions of the authors are featured in The Red and the Black by Stendhal and Hea...

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...

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...

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...

Okonkwo's Aggression in Achebe's Things Fall Apart

5 pages No outside sources cited. This paper relates the nature of Achebe's character Okonkwo, who demonstrates distinctly aggres...

Chinua Achebe and Victor Frankenstein

that he has chosen for himself. Yet when he, after months of disgusting, horrifying work, finally brings his creation to life, he ...

Derek Walcott, Chinua Achebe, and Non Native Writers Use of English

cursory look at Achebes work shows that this is a reasoned and well thought-out choice that serves to underscores the authors mess...

The Characters Okonkwo and Oedipus Compared

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

"Things Fall Apart" - Feminism and Postcolonialism

is himself a figure that is somewhat alien to the experiences of many Westerners in the sense that he has "earned" three wives thr...

"Things Fall Apart" - The Tragic View

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "Things Fall Apart". Tragic aspects of the novel are emphasized. Paper uses five so...

African Literature and the Importance of Generational Values

are eradicated by the arrival of Christian missionaries (Achebe 1994). Chimamanda Adichies "The Purple Hibiscus" tells a story si...

Thematic Analysis of Things Fall Apart by Achebe

his titles. He is part of the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order...

Analysis of 'The River Between' by Ngugi and 'Things Fall Apart' by Acheba

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

Things Fall Apart and the Death of a Hero

Okonkwo was like that, and the fact that his contemporaries in the village considered some of his traits excessive is communicated...

Idea of Freedom and Things Fall Apart

In four pages Chinua Achebe's novel is considered within the context of freedom and how its quest is represented in protagonist Ok...

Epic of Sunjata, Efuru, and Things Fall Apart Compared

In a paper consisting of six pages these three African novels written by Fa Digi Sisoko, Flora Nwapa, and Chinua Achebe are compar...

Okonkwo was to Blame in Things Fall Apart by Achebe

In a paper consisting of five pages an assessment regarding Okonkwo's responsibility for his own tragedy is discussed through an e...

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad Analyzed

Though not his most famous work, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer is a showcase for the author's command of language. This paper ...

The Use of Dialect by Swift, Blake and Conrad

Joseph Conrad's use of dialect and other literary techniques was influenced by many writers who came before. This paper links his ...

Life and Writings of Joseph Conrad

own ship, Otago" (ClassicReader.com). The same year also saw him become an official British citizen. "In the following years Co...

Literature, Understanding, and the Lack Thereof

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

Huxley and Conrad: Two Views of Civilization

changed dramatically. Huxley writes: "In place of the old pleasures demanding intelligence and personal initiative, we have vast o...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and 'The Horror! The Horror!'

In three pages the famous line from this novel is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

Self in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer

and mankinds necessity for interdependence (Galloway). This is an aspect that clearly speaks of leadership and maturity for witho...

Mary Shelley's Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad's Kurtz and Human Personality

In five pages this paper applies the human personality theories of Sigmund Freud to an analysis of these two classic literary char...

Leggatt and Captain in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer

Although "The Secret Sharer" was not written until 1909, some thirteen years after his last sea voyage, it is considered one of Co...

Joseph Conrad's 'Nostromo'

a narrative technique that makes skillful use of breaks in linear chronology. His character development is powerful and compelling...