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African author Chinua Achebe argues that the extended metaphor that Conrad uses to relate his principal theme is founded on the vi...

Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...

give them the power to obstruct justice, play by their own rules and literally attend to life in any manner they see fit. They ha...

difference in the narrative techniques the authors have used. For Austen there is an immediate theme set up, a perspective that of...

equality that will arise between nations, will speed up the advances of...sciences" which has "led us to so many useful and import...

how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...

the hospital commissary where Rudy is studying for the bar exam. In the book, Kelly and Rudy have met previously. Rudy comments ...

the irony of the Congo River, which is described as the antithesis of the Thames, which is the location from which Marlow tells th...

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

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

that no manipulation of light and pose could have con- veyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed re...

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

then. He gets a very powerful and intriguing adventure when he attempts to pull a ladder into the ship, only to discover a man att...

Africa is symbolic of delving into the darkest recesses of the human soul. Conrad reveals that when Kurtz came to the Congo he w...

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

In five pages romanticism and modernism are compared in this consideration of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. There is 1 sour...

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

In eight pages this paper discusses exploitation followed by power renewal in A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, Continental Dri...

In six pages this paper analyzes the quest for self in a discussion of Charlie Marlow's enlightenment in Heart of Darkness by Jose...

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

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

(Anonymous Joseph Conrad 47.htm). In the beginning we Marlow as a very energetic and eager young man who wants adventure and excit...

weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...

complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves" (Bowers 91). Marlow is discouraged by other Europeans who work for the enigm...

organ and the heavily accented voice of the priest, which allow for "not only contrasting the pious words of the protagonists with...

He seems to have made up his mind at the very beginning of the saga. He has become a part of the military...

In six pages this paper examines The Godfather in terms of how it represented gender, race, and class. Three sources are cited in...

to a casino owner in The Godfather who had his eye shot out after refusing to do business with the Corleones, is the Soprano crews...

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

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...