This Is Now

survivors from the ruins of post-cataclysm Dubai for subsequent extraction. To accomplish this goal, the player must traverse the city to neutralize enemy threats and natural disasters. As the player progresses, more and more, the theme begins to change as they spiral into madness. The video presented is the ending of the game, where Walker fights his final battle. There are many things happening with this scene with Captain Martin Walker when he finally confronts his arch nemesis, John Konrad.…

gentlemen who represent the stereotypical civilized Europeans while traveling down the Congo, but they turn out to be less civilized than the natives due to their lack of restraint when surrounded by an unbounded society. Kurtz is a prime example of this irony; before his conversion he wrote a paper about the superiority of the whites who should “exterminate the brutes,” but then he steps over the threshold into the darkness of savagery and loses all restraint. By the end of his physical…

Even before the first physical exchange, a man’s reputation is often the initial impression one receives. Reputations can produce misconstrued conceptions that shape another’s attitude. They can seemingly make one man another’s superior. A man’s prestige can establish authority and greatness where the two may be equals in every other merit. Through the revealing characterization in his novel Heart of Darkness, Conrad suggests that reputation is the driving force of humanity. Prior to…

side-swiped by somebody big and obviously very strong. Spinning high in the air, clinched below the waist, between two arms of steel, she began to laugh when she realized who her unidentified assailant was. It was Liam, her dance partner, who was undoubtedly now famous throughout the Plymouth arts community for playing the handsome Cavalier. He spun her around one more time before safely returning her to the ground. “You were fantastic! We did it!” he…

that he will most likely not make it back to Europe alive and so gives Marlow a bundle of papers for safekeeping. Kurtz remarks, “I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.” (71) and finally states his last words “The horror! The horror!” (71) At this moment, Kurtz finally becomes aware of the actions he has committed, how different of a person he was before he entered the “heart of darkness”, and realizes that what the Europeans have done under colonization in the name of progress and…

Apocalypse Now, made in 1979, was a film about the 1954-1975 Vietnam War, along with the psychological effects and how it’s caused a social issue. This war of “aerial bombing and small guerilla skirmishes” was a very “unpopular war”, as Eric Foner says in Give Me Liberty: Fourth Edition. It is also known that this war was America’s longest war lasting a little over 20 years. As shown in the film, it was a brutal, gruesome, and unwinnable war that only one couldn’t imagine. It is quoted in the…

Congo. He later left the boating business and began to write (“Joseph Conrad”). Heart of Darkness is a fictional adventure story. It is important to the time period, because England was, at the time, trying to conquer and control other countries. This story is centered around England’s…

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 neither Conrad nor Marlow gives us a full view of what is outside the world – conquering attitudes… By that I mean that Heart of Darkness works so effectively because its politics and aesthetics are, so to speak, imperialist" (24). On one hand, Camus's…

amount of ivory he acquires for the Company made him legendary among his peers (Conrad 115). Due to his immense success, Kurtz was sent down the Congo river to amass an even greater amount of ivory, therefore resulting in Marlow’s journey to fetch the now missing Kurtz. As Marlow encounters the property, he espied at the “heads on the stakes” and immediately recoils (127). Then, Conrad further constructs the morbid imagery by highlighting the disgusting traits of these adornments.…

"Men! The only animal in the world to fear" (Lawrence). This quote by D.H. Lawrence makes a statement about the fact that man is capable of the most heinous and despicable acts. Though man is not an animal, he is inclined to be much more cruel than any other living thing. Humans have a moral guideline to live by, but throughout many generations, they have proved themselves to be less than civilized. By way of example, in his novel, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad illustrates how man can truly…