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Heart Of Darkness is one of the most important Joseph Conrad’s novels. It was written in 1899 in English, his third language, and its main topics are the relation between civilitation and savages and the evil side of the human being. It is considered to be one of the most difficult books to understand because the quantity of symbols that dull the reading. During the story, there are a lot of details we have to consider and think about them as messages the writter wanted to reflect. Let’s divide…

To be graded Jamie Koo (10) 207 Literature drama PT journal First entry Act 3 From act 3, we can infer that Shylock is not a pleasant character. He goes from simply scheming about getting revenge on the Christians to becoming fanatical about killing Antonio as the play progresses from act 1 to act 3. Shylock can be associated with the “devil” as he was being portrayed as a devious and scheming Jew who plotted Antonio’s death. His character is fascinating and multi-layered, as seen in act 3…

of Southern California; United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Retrieved from http://www.martinhilbert.net/DigitalGenderDivide.pdf Marzocchi, O., & Bonewit, A. (2015). Empowering Women on the Internet (1st ed.). Brussels: Policy Department C: Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs European Parliament. Retrieved from http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2015/536473/IPOL_IDA(2015)536473_EN.pdf Primo, N. (2003). Gender Issues in the Information…

portrayed. Before even setting foot in the Congo, the reader is shown a bleak, grave, and altogether unpleasant origin for the protagonist. From the “two women knit[ing] black wool feverishly” (Conrad 55), an ominous allusion to the Greek Fates, to Brussels’ description as a “whited sepulcher” (Conrad 54), none of Conrad’s descriptions of Europe seem flattering. Furthermore, Conrad intentionally uses two allusions from various religions: the Christian book of Matthew is the source of the “whited…

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In consideration of the Intended and her destructive naïveté, it is salient to also examine the presence of Kurtz’s “barbarous and superb” mistress (Conrad 175). For, as Chinua Achebe argues in the essay “An Image of Africa,” the Congolese woman is the “savage counterpart to the refined, European” Intended (6). While the white woman exists to represent civilization and its idealistic ignorance, the novel’s only female racial “other” symbolizes the wilderness and its dark truths. Via Marlow’s…

Dutch is also spoken and official in Aruba, Brussels, Curaçao, Flanders, Sint Maarten and Suriname. It is a West Germanic, Low Franconian language that originated in the Early Middle Ages (c. 470) and was standardized in the 16th century. West Frisian is also a recognized language and it is used by…

Plato explains in his dialogue to Phaedrus that “Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings . . . Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human” (Plato). For centuries, experts have wondered if there really is a link between mental illness and artistic success: in large part due to the seemingly high amount of successful artists who have suffered from a form of illness. While many people are familiar with the…

Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, once wrote, “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature” (153). When writing Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad did not have to create living people because the majority of his characters are accurate representations of the people in his life. In fact, the main character, Charlie Marlow, can be viewed as an autobiographical figure. Conrad’s novel accounts…

inevitably bring an abundant amount of wealth to Belgium. Leopold promises wealth and he states that he would cooperate with the natives. He convinces the Belgian government by comparing Congo with Belgium, he said that both states was once small and how Brussels rose to prominence. By comparing Belgium and Congo, he states how Belgium was once like Congo. Thus, Leopold gains the trust of his government with his letter and reassures that Congo would become a prosperous colony. He declares…