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In (love song, with two goldfish), Grace Chua presents both the build up to and the breakup of the relationship between to goldfish. However, through direct parallels with human behaviour, Chua represents the flaws on the human condition through an extended metaphor, personifying goldfish. Chua particularly represents the mindlessness of humans, our ingenious emotions and the way we feel despair. Whilst Chua is using fish, she draws direct parallels to human emotions and behaviours, through her…

Boesman and Lena The stage play ‘Boesman and Lena’ is a play set in 1983 written by playwright Athol Fugard. Athol Fugard centres the play on three characters from the Eastern Cape, Boesman, Lena and Outa. The play depicts the aftermath of the forced removals during the Apartheid Era and the results for many in real life at the time. This play also channels many concepts, including that of absurdity. Other themes of identity, displacement and alienation can be seen in the play too. This essay…

Darkness” by Joseph Conrad? The novel “Heart of Darkness” is a story about Africa mainly Congo which was colonized by European. The story is narrated by a man called Marlow who goes to Congo as a Stream boat caption. Here Conrad describes the Europeans secret evil of colonialism and their approach to exploit natives. Colonization can be seen through Marlow’s eyes the way European are treating the Natives and the treatment of natives by Kurtz. In the book heart of darkness Conrad talks about how…

the pressure of the hostile environment was a weakness to the protagonist and he had to overcome it so that he could preserve his identity that had a threat of being corrupted. The implication of the title “Heart of Darkness” has been developed by Conrad through implementing the use of literary devices to illustrate the character’s progression into a savage state of being through interactions with his environments during the passage into deeper and deeper to the unknown. The relationship…

Introduction Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad narrates the story of colonization by providing a comparison between Africa and London in 1899. Conrad tries to advance the idea that little difference exists between the European civilized people and the African savages. According to Europeans, the invasion and eventual annexation of Africa was meant to introduce ‘light’ in dark Africa. Light meant civilization according to the White Anglo-society. Fully armed with technological advancements,…

is not based upon human to human tutelage alone, better yet our surroundings influence equally or greater than that of a classroom. Analyzing far enough back, nature swayed decisions quicker than any roundtable could. In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad writes about the complexities and faults in humanity’s perception towards race and culture; moreover, the quest in answering this question sheds light upon the effects surroundings can invoke and how that relates back to society’s plight of pride…

If evil and irrationality are truly parts of human nature, they would be evident in society. For both Golding and Conrad, civilization seemed full of mankind’s evil. Golding commented that Lord of the Flies was his “attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature” (Epstein 204). It is about the failure of civilization to overcome evil (Thapliyal and Kunwar 86). Civilization on the island seems to be in ruins, but the outside world is in much bigger shambles. The story…

An Author’s Canvas Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad, that reveals the true nature of imperialism and its merciless idiosyncrasies. Complications of race, power, and insanity are brought too attention and are questioned as the story progresses. Specific, symbolic paintings emerge throughout the novella, representing a deeper meaning and theme of the voyage of Heart of Darkness. There are many artworks that do not take place in the novella but can still represent and embody the…

Women in the Heart of Darkness In the Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, women exist solely for the male characters without voices. In the book itself, not one of the few women introduced were given a name. They are both unworthy of a name and irrelevant to the main characters and narrators. Even the women to whom Marlow turns to find him a job has no name. Instead, the women are known merely by their actions and words. We come to know his aunt through her diction and prattling on in a…

To what extent was colonialism to blame for issues in congo today. Congo was colonized by Leopold & the Belgian Government in 1885. Leopold colonized Congo because he wanted their natural resources so then they can stay protected and not be surpassed by other countries. His motives to do this was mostly for self-benefits so then he could be whether and more powerful. He was able to do this by tricking and deceiving people by promising protection through a language barrier they made them…