Darkness

They woke in darkness. It was not the simple, expected darkness but instead a heavy darkness. It was as if a massive woolen blanket had been draped over them. The air was cold. It stung your skin and seemed to reach down to your bones, chilling them and making them ache. There was a smell that stunk of something long dead and rotting. They were in a small room set aside from a larger room filled with junk and scrap metal that made a makeshift maze, the larger room was like the inside of a…

Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, and Left Hand of Darkness, written by Ursula K. Le Guin, are books that have two different and conflicting plots. Great Expectations is about a boy named Philip Pirrip who grows up in a low social class and has the desire to become a gentleman. He wants to impress and win the heart of a girl named Estella that he has fallen in love with. However, in Left Hand of Darkness, the story starts out in the view of a man named Genly Ai who travels to…

Darkness to Light’s Advertisement’s on Preventing Sexual Child Abuse Darkness to Light, also known as D2L, is a non-profit organization driven to prevent sexual child abuse. It began in the year 2000 aiming to reduce the incidents of abuse against children by raising public awareness and educating people not only in their community but all across the nation and world. With all the support D2L’s community gave and all the money raised, it was able to launch the following year in June of 2001. The…

“Heart of Darkness” helps us understand the main problems of our current time. If we go back in time and look at history, some of the things that happen are too hard to truly understand. An example would be Holocaust. How could people allow this types of genocide to occur? How could people participate in these atrocities? “Heart of Darkness” is a great example of how people allowed horrible things to happen as a result of propaganda. Propaganda is the spreading of false misleading information…

“I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.” Byron writes these iconic and rather dramatic words at the beginning of the poem to symbolize the darkness that he has seen in society. In the poem, “Darkness”, Byron uses the dog to symbolize the individual thought without bias of social prejudices ability to think without corruption while his reference to humans is that their choices, decisions, and thoughts are a collective that is both prejudice and biased. Byron portrays the opening scene as…

world. This often involves exploring exotic places, hearing interesting languages, and experiencing diverse cultures. Sometimes this causes a person to be dazed or distress because it is too much. This is called culture shock. In the novel, Heart of Darkness, we read about Kurtz going into the Congo as a phenomenal person, and coming out of the jungle as a bizarre person, that is what culture shock can do to you. Before entering the jungle, Kurtz was an exceptional man. He excelled in…

Draft In Shakespears “Macbeth” the nighttime and darkness play a major role in the development of the story and characters in the play. Many major events that advance and shape the plot of the story take place at night and most of these happen to be evil events. From this we can tell that Shakespeare is trying to tell us that these evil deeds are dependent on the dark and it’s not just a coincidence. Many times in the play we see people request darkness to commit an evil act. One of the most…

Robinson Crusoe Literary Criticism Essay Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a tale based on the real survival of a Scottish merchant marooned on a Caribbean island during the early 1700s. In Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves : Colonialism, the novel and Robinson Crusoe by, Brett C. McInelly (2003 John Hopkins University Press). Brett C. McInelly, talks about British and European colonialism of the era, religious conversion, expansion of trade, and the mastering of oneself and destiny In…

Okefenokee Swamp, “a convenient point of entry and a magnificent show-window for the “Land of the Trembling Earth”, yet it's not just what the description makes it out to be. Passage one may hint at that, but in passage two the magnificent in the description switches to hellish by the style in which the author writes. Although the passages are largely about the same thing passage one intends to draw visitors towards the swamp, while passage two warns against travel to the “hellish zoo”.…

In the play Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry the effects of colonialism is a theme that is irrevocably present throughout the plot. The play is set in a fictional country in Africa and it depicts in detail the results of European presence. Although the setting and characters were fictional the story line followed and contained various realistic situations and issues that existed and continues to exist in colonized countries. Some major issues that are presented in the play that transcends…