Theme Of Invictus

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The poem invictus and the documentary evolution of a criminal are some what similar because they both refer to being in a dark place. The themes within the documentary and the poem mainly talks about how someone's life is hard and about their dark place that they was in within some point in their life. In both of the items it makes the reader see what a dark place seems and feels like. In the poem they use strong intense words to make the reader more into the poem. By reading the poem you feel what a dark place is like. Some examples of the dark places of the poem are “Black as the Pit from Pole to Pole,” “Under the bludgeoning of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed”. The examples above provide more of a understanding of a dark place within

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