Headhunter presents madness as even more insidious than Marlow’s travels into the Congo in Heart of Darkness. The earth seems to be on the edge of an apocalyptic front as society's mental sickness has been altered a line with the physical making it more real in a sense. It seems that the way this madness can be controlled is through the medicines and vaccines that have helped with other stigmas While madness is seen and brought under control as an illness treated by medicine. Through the novel stumusemia is the result of a conspiracy trying to hide human faults and selfishness without finding a cure. Therefore the corporations instructed to cure the madness are actually the cause of it. With Kurtz the head of the
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Against them are Lilah Kemp and Amy Wylie, who both suffer from neurological disorders Lilah suffers from schizophrenic. Emma Berry seems to be driven toward society’s pressure like Mrs. Ross as they are both not on the side of good or evil but pulled toward the madness and uncertainty. There is division by gender seen in Headhunter mostly in the roles of power. With very little exceptions, most of those in positions of power are men. Beaumorris Corporation is being fought over to see who gets control, only one of the people fighting for control of it is a woman, who is Freda Manley. Since Kurtz has control over Doctor Shelley and sturnusemia is not effective to only one gender then evil does not just lie with the male counterpart but also the female. But greed, boundless ambition and evil are not exclusively or specifically male they all deal back to the male dominated roles of power in the social system. This system controls society and is shown through the Club of Men, one way seen through its members as most are Toronto’s elite and financial advisers. Secondly there is no Club of Women and why isn’t there? Woman in the novel are portrayed as having little or no power. Heart of Darkness is an example of confrontation between men, as woman have no real relevance in the novel. Headhunter presents an atmosphere in which women are actively participating even though they are related to as having lesser
Against them are Lilah Kemp and Amy Wylie, who both suffer from neurological disorders Lilah suffers from schizophrenic. Emma Berry seems to be driven toward society’s pressure like Mrs. Ross as they are both not on the side of good or evil but pulled toward the madness and uncertainty. There is division by gender seen in Headhunter mostly in the roles of power. With very little exceptions, most of those in positions of power are men. Beaumorris Corporation is being fought over to see who gets control, only one of the people fighting for control of it is a woman, who is Freda Manley. Since Kurtz has control over Doctor Shelley and sturnusemia is not effective to only one gender then evil does not just lie with the male counterpart but also the female. But greed, boundless ambition and evil are not exclusively or specifically male they all deal back to the male dominated roles of power in the social system. This system controls society and is shown through the Club of Men, one way seen through its members as most are Toronto’s elite and financial advisers. Secondly there is no Club of Women and why isn’t there? Woman in the novel are portrayed as having little or no power. Heart of Darkness is an example of confrontation between men, as woman have no real relevance in the novel. Headhunter presents an atmosphere in which women are actively participating even though they are related to as having lesser