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Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces portrays the hero as a character destined for greatness. But that raises the question of aren’t we all heroes in a sense? He acknowledges that the potential of a hero resides in every soul but fails to mention that everyone on earth is destined for greatness. Everyone is a hero in their own right and their own myth, their life, and each person makes choices that either aid or hinder their personal heroic quest, whether they are aware they are on…

Of all the dictators during the 20th century, Joseph Stalin was the worst, while also being the most effective in the ways that he changed Russia. Nearly everyone would agree that Joseph Stalin was a monster, but he did help Russia in many ways. Before Stalin’s rule, Russia was a poor, peasant country, and he transformed it into an industrialized nation with a strong military. However, Stalin ruled by fear, and killed twice as many people as Hitler did- 50 million estimated deaths- including…

Horror by Paranoia In late 1934, Stalin launched a campaign of political terror, otherwise know as the Great Purge. After Lenin’s death in 1924 Stalin maneuvered his way up the political ranks until he became the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (History.com Staff). Under his leadership came a period of terror across Russia. The Great purge, 1934 to 1939, was an unjust era of false persecution, high police surveillance, suspicion of saboteurs…

Mano A Mano Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union for approximately thirty years and in that short time, studies show that he killed upwards of 60 million people (How Many). Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party from 1933 until he took his own life in 1945; it is estimated that he took the lives of at least 11 million people (Schwartz). These two powerful political leaders share many comparable traits in their ruthless ways. These men are also vastly different in who they…

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…

Feminist View: This story is drowning in imperialism as Marlow describe his “adventure” in Africa and the Company’s treatment of the country and the natives as the lust for both money and power (by any means necessary) has taken control of the invaders. Imperialism is largely a masculine enterprise. Women only further the men's agenda, particularly in the story: 1. Marlow's aunt uses her wealth and connections to land Marlow a job with the Company that sends him to the Congo. 2. Women ushered…

Lightness vs Darkness plays a big role in the Heart of Darkness, it underlies knowledge and ignorance through the story. Light and darkness are used in the events and locations in the story. The protagonist, Marlow uses light and darkness to describe where he is and how it will play an important role later on. By using these motifs, it can also tell readers if there is real culture or more savagery in the story and the differences between the good and the bad. In this story, Marlow is…

Conrad’s Purpose of Heart of Darkness Since the publication of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in 1899, it has opened the world’s eyes to the evil disposition of humans, which is exactly Conrad’s intention. In fact Conrad once said that “the belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” Heart of Darkness is a clear representation of those words. Conrad’s novel follows the character Charlie Marlow on his journey into the depths of…

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a 19th and early 20th century French composer of classical music. Maurice Ravel was born on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France. His mother, Marie Delouart was Basque and father, Joseph Ravel was from Switzerland. At his third month, his family moved to Paris. His brother, Édouard Ravel was born in Paris after three years of their moving. There was no evidence of Ravel’s entering a school for his formal Education. However, acknowledging his passion in the early age,…

The voice of the winner is the one who tells history, but often times there are many important perspectives that get left out. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness many such voices are forgotten and ignored. Most obviously the natives, but one particular group is swept even further to the side in this novel. That group is the feminine perspective. Throughout the novel there is an overall lack of appearance by women. When they are included in a scene their thoughts are hardly heard, and if they…