William Conrad

light and desirable can prove to bring out the ugliest aspects of humanity or cause significant discomfort. Conrad also demonstrates this with the corruption of his character Kurtz, an initially philanthropic and talented company employee who has a twisted lust for ivory and who commits horrible acts in it’s pursuit. Conrad shows

can symbolize darkness in any situation, such as violence, discrimination, and other cruel acts that people experience daily. Acts of darkness could cause harm to an individual physically or emotionally. In the novel, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the word darkness is used to symbolize many events that happened in the continent of Africa. Three events that symbolize the word darkness are the Europeans cruel behaviors, Kurtz’s selfishness, and Marlow’s sexist statements. One event in the

issues—Conrad’s novella is easily paralleled with countless contemporary affairs; reaching from international, national, social, and personal matters (Conrad). Not only recently, but for many years we have been fighting in the middle east. Very recently, militants of the Islamic State executed seventy civilians in a Syrian town (Deeb, abcnews.com). As Conrad explores humankind's evil innate desires in the Heart of Darkness through violence, hypocrisy, and our interior world—one can straightforwardly connect

The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. A familiar saying that corresponds perfectly to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The main character, Marlow, thirsts to travel the world. The story begins by telling his voyage into the center of Africa. Later, after landing in this “new” world expecting knowledge and adventure, Marlow is exposed to the depravity placed upon the savages or natives. While he’s docked there, he hears of this remarkable person named Kurtz, who is located in the furthest

Individuals are compelled to change their perception when they undergo unexpected situations which have the ability to challenge their previously held ideas. This transformative change can be intellectual, giving rise to a new understanding of the world and a reassessment of personal and societal values. However, the intellectual discovery often has an underlying emotional transformation, which gives more weight to a protagonist's growth, allowing the audience to empathise with the texts on a deeper

the book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad there is a man named Charlie Marlow. He is going on a journey to the Congo in Africa. According to Marlow: “Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck till some man-I was told the chiefs son-in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man-and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder blades” (Conrad 9). The chiefs’ son reacted over fear

as innocent and pure. Though she lacks the excitement of Kurtz’s African mistress, she is the good homely wife a man would prefer. In comparison to the African mistress, Marlow envisions ‘The Intended’ with ‘sunlight’ and brightness. In this way, Conrad alludes that the only thing of importance to women is their physical beauty to please the eyes of

body, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man’s mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time.” In the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad there are two characters whose minds are being torn in two. One of these characters is the mysterious Kurtz. Kurtz is the commander of a trading post for a corrupt company who trades ivory. While he works for corrupt company and does disgusting things

David Lynch's Blue Velvet is an exploration of things above and below the surface. This surface is really a borderline between not only idyllic suburban America and the dark, perverted corruption that lies underneath but also between good and evil, conscious and subconscious, dream and reality. Although this division seems quite rigid and clean-cut some of the most important implications of the film stem from the transgressions of these borderlines. In the initial scenes of the film Lynch introduces

Comparative Essay In the novella Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, and in the poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot, they have numerous similarities. Even though two completely different authors write them, they still have the similar topics, themes, and characters. The Heart of Darkness was wrote in 1899 about a voyage up the Congo River into the heart of Africa. Marlow and many other characters experienced many obstacles on eventful expeditions and multiple interactions with the “savages”, also