Through the Darkness

Have you ever read a book and then thought: "What does this even mean?" Well, the book, Alice' Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, brings up the same question. Did Carroll have a point he was trying to make, or did he write his story for pure entertainment? I believe that he wrote it for entertainment purposes. Though no one but Carroll actually knows the answer to this question. The reasons supporting my thesis are: the original story was told for the amusement of three little girls,…

Alice is turning a non-sense world into reality. For this reason, when your imagination takes over the real and makes believe world. It is considered to be one of the best examples of literacy nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Alice is a sensible prepubescent girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by…

Go ask Alice is book written in diary form. The author is unknown. The main character is Alice, which is the one who write the diary. Throughout the diary, Alice talks about the challenges with she faces and how she copes with them. Alice’s dad, who is a college professor, takes an offer to teach at a different college. Alice and her family have to move to a new town at the beginning of the next year. Alice has problems fitting in at her new school, but soon makes a new friend, Beth. Alice…

Alice Walker is an amazing writer. She has the ability to remember small details about her life that makes this essay perfect. This amazing woman, carefully selects from three areas of her personal experiences in life, and she shares them with us in “Beauty” when the other dance is the self. Thus, we are captivated at the beginning of her story by self fulfilling prophecy of her vanity. We feel the painful shame when she is disfigured after being shot in the eye by her brother who asks Alice…

weakness to the protagonist and he had to overcome it so that he could preserve his identity that had a threat of being corrupted. The implication of the title “Heart of Darkness” has been developed by Conrad through implementing the use of literary devices to illustrate the character’s progression into a savage state of being through interactions with his environments during the passage into deeper and deeper to the unknown. The relationship…

Good vs. Evil in Heart of Darkness In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad focuses on the main characters of Marlow, the story’s narrator, who recounts his journey into the interior of the Congo, and Kurtz, an ivory trader, who is shrouded in mystery as Marlow is eager to meet him. Through the archetypes of the hero’s journey and shadow, both Marlow and Kurtz become deeply affected by their setting, which illuminates the theme of good versus evil. Throughout Heart of Darkness, Marlow, the main…

the “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad? The novel “Heart of Darkness” is a story about Africa mainly Congo which was colonized by European. The story is narrated by a man called Marlow who goes to Congo as a Stream boat caption. Here Conrad describes the Europeans secret evil of colonialism and their approach to exploit natives. Colonization can be seen through Marlow’s eyes the way European are treating the Natives and the treatment of natives by Kurtz. In the book heart of darkness Conrad…

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is one of the most known novels in English literature. The story begins when Marlow, who works for a Belgian company, went on a journey to the heart of Africa as a steamship captain. Through his journey, he heard the name of Kurtz for the first time. Then the name repeated many times which made Marlow, who is our narrator in addition to another unknown narrator, interested to know about Kurtz. Kurtz works for the company as an ivory trader in the Congo which was…

“Heart of Darkness and Racism”, he suggests that Joseph Conrad attacks the colonization of Africa through racism in his novel Heart of Darkness. While most critical essays regarding race generally focus on whether or not Conrad is a racist, like Chinua Achebe’s “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”, Hawkins neither agrees nor disagrees, stating that racism shouldn’t be the main focus when reading the novel. Instead, he claims that Conrad’s purpose for writing Heart of…

Heart of Darkness follows the main character, Marlow, and his journey in search of Mr. Kurtz in the Congo to bring him back to England. Marlow eventually finds Mr. Kurtz and witnesses how he exploits the African people due to the fact that they worship him; Mr. Kurtz dies on the trip back. Conrad’s language throughout the novella is extremely descriptive of the natural landscape of the new land he is traveling around. Within the description of the new land he is witnessing, he also describes the…