Heart of Darkness Essay

Edward Hopper created the beautiful painting titled Nighthawks. It is made from oil on canvas. He created the painting in 1942 and he was inspired to create it because of a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue. Fluorescent light came into use in the early 1940’s. Nighthawks is a painting showing four people in a restaurant late at night. The lines in the painting are mostly straight with a few curves. The lines are mostly straight to make the buildings more structured. The shapes are…

In this work (Araby) by James Joyce, we see many motifs, themes, and symbols. One that sticks out is that of the schoolboy whose life seems to include an inordinate amount of darkness for someone his age. While most young boys are doing their best to cause mischief and have as good a time as possible, this boy seems to have a few images of light in his life, which causes a dark foreboding over the story. This is presented through images of death and decay, in his immediate surroundings and the…

1. The dark weary feel of a cemetery can be matched by nothing. There is nothing more scary and creepier than a cemetary at night. Thinking of all the bodies and bones buried beneath the layer of dirt beneath your feet. One evening we were taking my grandmother to my pawpaws grave to replace the old withered flowers that we had previously put there the month before. For some odd reason, when we began to leave the car wouldn't crank, because the battery had died. Now we were stuck with no…

concept of light versus darkness is one that has been present for many generations, in both literature and other forms of media. The dominance of such idea lies in the fact that from the beginning of time, light and darkness has been accepted as an archetype which established two opposing sides, classic examples being good versus bad, or hope versus despair. This archetype is further present in the play Twelfth Night, in which William Shakespeare utilizes light and darkness in order to identify…

In Paul Bogard's article "Let There Be Dark", builds an argument on every city using too much lighting in their houses, businesses, and street lights during the night. Bogard uses many methods to get his argument be heard by the readers on why we should limit our light using in the night when they're not being used. In his article, he uses a lot of ethos, pathos and logos, but he also puts in rhetorical question to make his argument reasonable with the information he gets and the effects that…

Africans have been portrayed and depicted as savage animals by many people throughout history. Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe about the Igbo tribe in Africa and their true way of life. Chinua Achebe is a black man originally from an Igbo tribe, and he believes that the portrayal of Africans as savage animals is false. Because of this, he writes Things Fall Apart. In an interview with Achebe he states, “There is that great proverb—that until the lions have their own…

Paul Bogard strongly believes that natural darkness should be preserved. In order to prove the need for natural darkness, Bogard divides his argument into three main topics, saying that natural darkness is beneficial to humans, essential to humans, and essential to ecosystems. According to Bogard, natural darkness can be a positive help to humans. One of the ways it can accomplish this is by giving enjoyment to onlookers. To supplant this, Bogard gives a personal example of how he enjoyed…

encompassing darkness. It was cold, rough and scary. In hush whispered terms brother spoke of a different world, a faraway place, where the darkness couldn’t reach us. Back then I thought it was just a fairytale. I never believed I would someday be a part of that world, that glorious, radiant, dangerous world. My brothers went first. They said they couldn’t take a second longer in this darkness. They said they were going to try to find the far away place. I thought…

life to strive for something different, but he selects the shade instead, a representation of his abandonment of life itself. The deaf man brings himself to the bar and the light every night, but eventually he always leaves, walking off into the darkness, putting the light and hope behind him. The old waiter also attempts to cure the flaws in his life as well as provide salvation for those who need it through the lights of the bar, proclaiming that “the light is very good,” and that light is all…

explains exactly why light pollution has spread. "We are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun's light” (Klinkenborg pg.478). He explains that humans have filled the night with light, so we have an easier time adapting to the darkness. However, with this comes consequences with our actions. Klinkenborg is effective when persuading the audience that light pollution is a problem. Therefore, there need to be actions taken through sympathetic examples of animals that are affected…