Joseph Story

The Heart of Darkness was a novel written by Joseph Conrad and published in February 1899. The story revolves around different types of darkness such as the setting of the story, the color of one’s skin, and even the darkness that lies inside each individual. Natives are dominated by the company to do what is told in order for each ship to successfully reach each station throughout the Congo river.The darkness drives the story as the company’s evil ways start to unravel while Marlow finds the…

different ideas that I expressed in different ways when I was a kid. I used to be obsessed with stories. I remember my mother used to drop dozens of books in my bed and I would just stare into them, not knowing how to read yet, I would just imagine and invent the stories by myself. Stories are a unique way of people expressing their inner selves. My interest in film industry is to create stories. Stories of a very common, but specific and powerful category. Monomyth, or sometimes called Hero’s…

Jong-Il’s fatal heart attack. Joseph Stalin rose to power in 1924 when Lenin died. By his way of outsmarting his rivals, he became the dictator of the Soviet Union. Napoleon came to power after driving the former leader, Snowball, off Animal Farm. The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, farm animals get rid of their farmer, Jones, and become their own government. However, the animals end up living in a communist dictatorship. As many book reviews have pointed out, this story has parallels with…

by Joseph Conrad. He was born in Poland on December 3, 1857. Much of the writing of Joseph Conrad was centered around adventures at sea and trips to exotic places. His writing often has messages that are deeper than most stories. He attacks issues that he thinks are important. Conrad, himself, spent much of his youth at sea. After mastering sailing, Conrad was given command of merchant ships in the Orient and on the Congo. He later left the boating business and began to write (“Joseph…

Throughout Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the main character Charlie Marlow is surrounded by dozens of nameless people and places, from the various African natives and Europeans he meets to the “Company” that he works for. Even the narrator who frames Marlow’s story remains anonymous. In doing so, Conrad allows readers to control their own perspectives of the novel. By providing a specific name or location for something or someone in the story, Conrad limits readers on their ability to…

that the idea of Caesar becoming king and gaining too much power is metaphorically killing them. Furthermore, even when warned by a soothsayer (fortune teller), Caesar still doesn’t believe his fate. Whether or not the fates of Julius Caesar and Joseph Stalin’s army were fate or just an unlucky play of events, both parties suffered immensely. To start, Julius Caesar is the leader of Rome and has just returned to Rome prior to defeating Pompey’s armies in a foreign land. Caesar doesn’t…

more enjoyable life. To follow your bliss, you need to find what you love to do, your ‘calling’. This being accomplished, the journey to your future starts to make more sense. To be able to achieve one’s bliss, they must follow the steps acquired by Joseph Campbell in his monomyth. The monomyth is perfected by three steps which include: separation and departure, challenges and trials, and return and reintegration. My personal bliss would be to find genuine happiness in life. No matter what the…

instrument makers, each building on the advancements of the last ones. The story of the saxophone differs from the usual pattern of instrument building as its creation lacks all these different steps and is due to one man, Adolphe Sax. Of all his experiments, the saxophone is his best work. Early on, Adolphe Sax apprenticed in the instrument manufacturing business under his father, Charles-Joseph Sax (1791 - 1865). Charles- Joseph Sax was…

Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, reveals the true nature of human beings. Throughout Heart of Darkness, certain characters, such as Kurtz and Marlow, expose the horror and brutality which is contained within a person’s heart. As the novella unfolds, Marlow uncovers the inhumanity and depravity that man can inflict on one another for the sake of imperialism. Furthermore, Kurtz reveals the murkiness which is inherent in human nature and the intentional destruction which man creates.…

nation away from harm and “To free the oppressed” or “De oppresso liber” as their motto goes (Brown), but does the means of inhumane treatment oppression of the soldiers and disregard for morality justify a means to an end? In Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, a story unfolds the events of a bomber captain named John Yossarian as he tries his hardest to avoid combat and an untimely death on and off the battlefield, portrayed with dark humor and depressing undertones as it slowly reveals the real…