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perceptions and attachments can lead into conflicts with others over issues such as power shifts with lack of reprisals, oppression, historical grudges, political agendas, or ethnocentrism. According to the news article “Why Is There So Much Turmoil Right Now? Understanding the Outbreak of Conflicts” by abc news reporter Colleen Curry, it has been suggested by Ilan Berman (vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council) that there are underlying reasons for the outbreaks in global…

In the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, the audience is taken through the dark and perilous adventure of Captain Willard during the Vietnam War. He aims to kill Colonel Kurtz, a once-respected member of the military, but now in his own confines of the Vietnamese jungle reportedly gone completely mad. Throughout the film, Captain Willard portrays deep anxiousness and curiosity of Colonel Kurtz from the files he receives from the military. It is evident that he goes through a rather excruciating and…

arms around me and my hands in your hair. I want so much that I don’t know what I want. One fact is for sure: I want you, and I want to be happy. I just wish there was a way to have both.” This comes from a private blog post entitled What I Want Right Now by the confused 11th grade version of myself. It was March 2015 and I was over three months deep into my first serious relationship. It took an intervention from trusted friends for me to realize just how unhealthy of a relationship I was in.…

history, there have been more Tarzan tales and reincarnations than anyone can count (you probably can, I guess – but who’d want to?). As a result, this is a character that has as much name recognition as any fictional personality ever conceived – right there with Superman, James Bond, and Robin Hood. However, just like James Bond and Superman, there have been some rather dreadful and forgettable inceptions of Tarzan – with the WB’s attempt at creating a television series around the character…

his dark actions eventually endanger his own life. After Marlow returns from the Congo, he visits the deceased Kurtz’s fiancee. As he enters the home he notes that Kurtz is “a shadow darker than the shadow of the night” (72). Even though Kurtz is now dead, he still leaves a shadow that is even darker than a shadow in the night time; meaning, Kurtz’s actions and the effects of those actions do not die with him, however they continue to leave a mark on the world. The room seems “[grow]”…

The Fascination in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad around the time of 1899. Apocalypse Now is a film inspired by Heart of Darkness and was released in 1979. Similar themes are displayed in both the film and novella. One main theme that they both have in common is “the fascination of the abomination” (Conrad, 7). Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now explore the theme of “the fascination of the abomination” through the setting of…

Have you ever wondered the difference between human and humane? In the story Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, right off the bat the reader is hit with the problem of the “nature of man”, and what it means to be human or humane. To be human means to have a sense of mind, to be living, and be at peace in mind. However, to be humane means to be gentle compassionate, caring, and have sympathy. It is often pondered that to be human means to be humane, however as Marlow learned on his travels…

Some critics argue that Conrad is exposing colonialism in his novel, one of those critics is H. S. Zins who claims that:" when Conrad was writing his anti–colonial and anti–imperial Heart of Darkness. In that African novella he described imperialism as robbery with violence" (1). This is true when he describes the Belgian colonization of Africa, but when he describes the British colonization he praises it and celebrating imperialism. Said in his book Culture and Imperialism states that: "Yet…

The Use of Darkness in Characterization in “Heart of Darkness” Through Imperialism In many great works of literature, the use of darkness and insanity in characterization was often used in a fictional matter. However, there is nothing fictional about the darkness that had spread through Africa’s deepest roots as a result of imperialism. This alone had set the primal continent back several hundred years behind the rest of the world in terms of technology and development. Lacking an advanced…

The Sweet Darkness Today the people of the Twenty-First Century do not recognize the loss of self through the unpredictability. Today we fight terror when, many years before we fought our self in our minds. Being these intrigued creatures of the unknown leaves us vulnerable to our minds. We face many emotions from joy to fear in the matter of seconds. What will come about when you are stripped of your emotions, are you even human? Being curious and having fear for the unknown the…