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Heart of Darkness
Orientalism refers to the tendency of the West to romanticize Islamic or Middle Eastern cultures. According to Edward W. Said in his book "Orientalism," Western powers tend to fetishize Middle...
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The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible has much in common with such critiques of colonialism, but it also moves beyond them, incorporating some realities from the postcolonial age. This is partly because it is...
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Things Fall Apart
The representations of colonialism in Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness differ in a major way. In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad depicts colonialism as a violent force deconstructing a...
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Heart of Darkness
Marlow admits that he has always been fascinated by maps, especially "blank" unexplored areas of maps, and that the one "blank" space on the map that most intrigued him was Africa, especially the...
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Heart of Darkness
The relationship between Europe and Africa is central to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Essentially, Conrad shows that the relationship between the two continents is based on the exploitation...
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Heart of Darkness
"Heart of Darkness" by author Joseph Conrad is a complex work that deals with imperialism in a nuanced manner. The most common interpretation of the story is that it is a harsh indictment of...
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness was published in 1899 as a serial and in 1902 as a book. During this time, the Congo Free State, where the novella takes place, was controlled by King Leopold II of Belgium as his...
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Heart of Darkness
An effective way to avoid analyzing Conrad's Heart of Darkness as emphasizing the hypocrisy of imperialism is to look at it from a Formalist frame of reference. Seeing that there is some level of...
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Heart of Darkness
In Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," there are many different attitudes that are reflected in the text. Of course, racial attitudes are the most obvious and most prominent, for the text centers...
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Heart of Darkness
In Joseph Conrad's novel, it is implied that Kurtz is an example of what happens to people who live in the jungle. Though Kurtz gained fame, glory and riches through his travels into the jungle in...
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Heart of Darkness
In the Heart of Darkness, Marlow, the narrator, relates his long fascination with the Congo, in the heart of Africa. At first, the darkness in the novella seems to lie with the Congolese natives,...
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Heart of Darkness
Throughout Heart of Darkness, Marlow can be seen as immature or naive. He searches for wealth and adventure in the jungle, unaware of the danger and corruption of the ivory trade because he is...
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Heart of Darkness
At the beginning of the novella "Heart of Darkness," Marlow, now in England, meditates about what it might have been like for a Roman soldier to have journeyed to current-day England. He...
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Othello
Though separated across centuries, all three works view women through the lens of male desire. In all three, women, though not entirely without power, exist primarily to fulfill male or patriarchal...
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Beowulf
English literature reflects the view that civilization has declined in its morality over the centuries, even as it's made progress technologically. In Beowulf (written down around 1000 CE), the...
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Beowulf
In British literature, nature was originally regarded as threatening, but before the modern era, nature came to be associated with noble simplicity and goodness. By the turn of the 20th century,...
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Beowulf
In Beowulf and Paradise Lost, women are very powerful characters. Grendel's mother in Beowulf avenges her son's death by slaying Hrothgar's most beloved friend. The she-monster's power comes not...
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Heart of Darkness
Marlow disposes of the body of the helmsman who has been killed by a spear thrown from natives on the shore by dumping it overboard into the Congo River. The cannibal crewmen are hungry, and...
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Heart of Darkness
Though Kurtz is clearly morally reprehensible (at least by the time we the readers meet him), there is a sense that Marlow's admiration and envy of the man is, in fact, justified. This...
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Heart of Darkness
This is both a great question and a tough question to answer, as there's a lot going on in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and multiple different layers of meaning could be manifest at the same...
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Heart of Darkness
In the Belgian colony that serves as the setting of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, then called the Congo Free State, narrator Marlow consistently witnesses the dehumanization of the Congolese...
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Heart of Darkness
In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Kurtz can be seen as something of a tragic hero. It's suggested that his original intentions were relatively honorable, and so his eventual decline into...
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Heart of Darkness
This is a great question, partly because Joseph Conrad's "heart of darkness" could potentially be found in all the options you've listed. However, because you probably have to choose one answer,...
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Heart of Darkness
The answer to this question can be found in one of Conrad's descriptions early on in the novel: ...[Marlow] began again, lifting one arm from the elbow, the palm of the hand outwards, so that,...
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Heart of Darkness
Kurtz’s last words, “The horror! The horror!” have been widely debated by critics and could have multiple meanings. On the surface, it seems that he is referring to the horrors he has...
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Heart of Darkness
The "women" that Charlie Marlow refers to are those who help him to find employment. He's fairly embarrassed that he had to resort to them, but he had become frustrated by the lack of response he...
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Heart of Darkness
This statement suggests that the evil or corruption of one's particular location (its "darkness," in other words) corrupts the people who live in that particular location. It's a support of the...
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Heart of Darkness
In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow is rarely directly involved in the action of the story, and serves mainly as a narrator who relates the story of Kurtz's degradation. Be that as it may,...
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Heart of Darkness
First, let's be clear about themes. This summary covers the basic themes of the story, but for me, the real theme is what Marlow calls the "fascination of the abomination." What this "abomination"...
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Heart of Darkness
Though his novella Heart of Darkness is obviously fiction, Joseph Conrad drew heavily from his own personal experiences to write the book. For instance, Conrad traveled widely as a young man while...
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Heart of Darkness
The manager appears essentially indifferent and slightly rude to Marlow. The unnamed manager is the head of the Central Station, keeping his position because he has outlived everyone else and has a...
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Heart of Darkness
Conrad's story has to do with the essential, and eternal, savagery of the world. When you think about the idea of "immortality" in this text you tend to think about Kurtz, and his ambition to be a...
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Heart of Darkness
The heart (or hearts) of darkness at the center of Joseph Conrad's influential story are up to interpretation, as is the horror (or horrors) that Kurtz references on his deathbed. Indeed, one could...
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Heart of Darkness
This scene takes place during the night before Marlow and his men evacuate Kurtz from his hellish station in the heart of the jungle. While it's difficult to know exactly what's going through...
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Heart of Darkness
In Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness, Kurtz, an ivory trader in the Congo (then known as the Congo Free State), makes the decision to turn the native population who live around his station into...
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Heart of Darkness
This is a great question because one of the primary themes of Conrad's Heart of Darkness is that, for all their supposed strength, the European powers in Africa, especially the Belgian Congo, are...
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Heart of Darkness
A good novel is not the same as a good essay or a political speech. In an argumentative essay or speech, a writer is expected to argue clearly for or against some sort of thesis. Although some...
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Lord of the Flies
In Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness we watch as formerly civilized people fall into a state of violence, barbarism, and evil. In Lord of the Flies the boys become superstitious of the beast,...
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Heart of Darkness
There's a lot going on in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and much of what the author has to say includes some kind of moral judgment. However, I believe that the first section of Marlow's tale,...
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad's masterful novella "Heart of Darkness" is about a steamboat captain named Marlow who narrates his harrowing trip into the heart or center of the Congo Free State in Africa. Marlow...
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Heart of Darkness
Marlow is a sailor, riverboat captain, and the narrator of Joseph Conrad's monumental novella, Heart of Darkness. Though there are many similarities between Marlow and Conrad himself, it would be a...
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Heart of Darkness
There are several ideas about what the heart of darkness might mean. From a colonialist perspective, many saw Africa as "the dark continent" due to prevalent racist attitudes towards the region....
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Heart of Darkness
There are a great deal of differences between Kurtz and Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, most of which stem from the fact that Marlow functions primarily as a narrator, while Kurtz...
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Heart of Darkness
You are very right in thinking that Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a depressing story; indeed, by the end of the novella, it's easy to regard the whole human race with mistrust and suspicion....
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Heart of Darkness
One way in which Heart of Darkness depicts a journey from innocence to experience can be seen in Marlow. Prior to undertaking his mission, Marlow displays innocence. Marlow shows innocence with...
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Heart of Darkness
In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow confesses to loving maps as a boy and hankering after the excitement of travel and adventure. During the description of his boyhood travel fantasies,...
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Heart of Darkness
The old doctor Marlow had to visit before he deployed used "a thing like calipers and got the dimensions back and front and every way, taking notes carefully." The man is a phrenologist; he...
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Heart of Darkness
In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow is the principal narrator and he satisfies his obsession with deepest Africa by journeying into its depths and returning to tell his story, barely...
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Heart of Darkness
What joins together the beginning and the end of Conrad's Heart of Darkness are the repeated instances of figurative and literal darkness, supporting the theme of darkness in the story. When the...
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness is a title with multiple layers. On the most superficial layer, it refers to the continent of Africa where the story (within the story) takes place. Marlow speaks of the how, as...
