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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...

Marlow and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

In five page this paper examines the novel in terms of its themes, conflicts, and the protagonist Charlie Marlow. Three sources a...

Heroism in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' and 'Beowulf'

The concept of heroism is compared in this paper consisting of 5 pages and there is a consensus that it is a concept that is beyon...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Novel Heart of Darkness

In four pages this paper compares the novel with the film. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Anatole France's Gods Will Have Blood and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

In five pages this paper compares the themes of justice and human cruelty within the context of these works. There are 2 sources ...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Henry James' Turn of the Screw and Evil

the Suppression of Savage Customs in which he claims that the white man in Africa must "necessarily appear to them [savages] in th...

Comparison of the Characters Featured in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

In six pages this paper compares the development of characters and 3rd person narrator uses in these novels by Gustave Flaubert an...

Comparative Analysis of Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Novel Heart of Darkness

Development in the Book and the Movie Marlow and Willard each see themselves as men of action. Both believe themselves to b...

Madness in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

of this mad ivory merchant, Kurtz; as part of his piloting job, he travels deep into the heart of the jungle with the idea of find...

Characters of Marlow and Lord Jim in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

In five pages this paper examines the effectiveness of the novel's third person narrative and examines the relationship between Ma...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Symbolism

In five pages this paper analyzes Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad in terms of the author's employment of dual symbolism. There...

Comparative Analysis of Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Novel Heart of Darkness

appears to be an observer in many ways, merely retelling a tale, Willard is a man who is driven by some uncontrollable force. It i...

Women's Voices on Africa, Patricia Romero

This book review is on Women's Voice on Africa: A Century of Travel Writing, which is edited by Patricia Romero. This text offers ...

Psychological Articles Summary and Overview

author defines compromise formations as "the data of observation when one applies the psychoanalytic method and observes and/or in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

Narration in “Heart of Darkness”

who come to Africa and find themselves overwhelmed by it. One example of the way in which Marlow puts his interpretation on things...

Kurtz as Hero in The Heart of Darkness

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...

Shaping the Narrative: The Narrators in “Ethan Frome” and “The Secret Sharer”

bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story" (Wharton). Its his c...

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...

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...

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...

Historical and Social Perspectives of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

upon the concept of language is clear when one considers why it rests so uncomfortable between that of mimetic realism and moderni...