Joseph Severn

Named and the Nameless In Joseph Conrad’s novel The Heart of Darkness Marlow, a new explorer for The Company, finds himself traveling into the heart of Africa and the darkness within it. During his journey he encounters many different people, but only he and the mysterious Mr Krutz, the manger of the central station in the heart of it all, are ever named. Every other character is named based on their title or who they appear to be. Overall in The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad defines his…

women are the people who lack excellent quality, and women are not perfect people. Some works show that the women were always undervalued in western society during the Victorian era. Heart of Darkness is a novel written by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. It writes about a story of Skipper Marlow’s experience on the Congo River. During the process of finding Kurtz, who is degenerated into a greedy colonialist from the hero who spread the Western civilization in Africa, Marlow finds the…

been a one way street {favoured the Soviets} and that could not continue” . Truman’s hostility towards the Soviets, due to his service during previous wars and personal values, weakened the bond between his fellow political leaders, especially with Joseph…

biggest attempt to “civilize” these “barbaric” humans was through Imperialism by European countries. It became such a social norm that the country that was able to “civilize” the most people was considered the most powerful country. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a story in which characters follow a path of self-discovery to find the true nature of their hearts. However, the book has been called a racist book by many critics but it was Chinua Achebe who believed that the book was racist…

In Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, the entire point of the novel is about exploring one’s inner truth and facing the darkness that is inside every human. In this sense, Conrad has a more focused attention on the nature of man. In Margaret Atwood’s novel, Oryx and Crake, though the plot focuses on Snowman, and the events that led up to the near extinction of humanity, she uses the characters as symbols to represent the many different facets of man. In Heart of Darkness, at the beginning…

successful alone, whenever the three crossed paths in Vienna, history was made. Each composer gave a unique quality to classical music that will never be forgotten. Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven had a profound impact on music and what it is today. Joseph Haydn, a composer from Austria, was born in 1732. At the age of eight, Haydn, being recruited into the school’s singing choir, enrolled at St.…

After the rubble of World War II settled, the last two standing superpowers were the United States and the USSR. Korea had been liberated from Japan and was being occupied by the two superpowers. Although there was never an actual war, this period of time was known as the Cold War. It is called this because there was never any real battles fought. This time period held many advancements in warfare and was also a competition between the two superpowers on who had the most power and influence.…

The films The Fall of Berlin (film 1) and Downfall (film 2) both present different depictions of Adolf Hitler in his final days during the Battle of Berlin. The first film provides a contrast between Hitler and Stalin throughout Germanys’ war with the Soviet Union. The Fall of Berlin was truly a propaganda film to promote Stalin as a leader and celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory against Germany. The film portrays Hitler as an explosive, demanding and unreasonable dictator who acts more as a…

To understand Triumph of the Will, one must understand propaganda, documentary, and the tumultuous time Germany was going through. Germany was in hard times during and before the Nuremburg rally of 1934. The previous war’s end and their punishment had caused the value of their money to plummet. They were poor and in need. Hitler and the Nazis were attempting to take over Germany as the first step to creating an empire. In prior months Hitler “combined the offices of President and Chancellor”,…

Ayn Rand’s Anthem gives the readers a look at a dystopian society in which individualism is forgotten and man’s only priority is to serve the greater good. The most common singular pronoun, “I”, is deemed unspeakable as it is thought of as self-centered and egocentric. The Council of Vocations controls all citizens’ lives, determining what they can and cannot do and laying out the rules for society. Rand’s Anthem depicts collectivism and communism, which have been ideas present throughout…