Analysis Of The Book ' The Darkness '

The Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad, is a thrilling, yet suspenseful piece, constantly keeping the audience on the edge of their seats. Conrad describes the scenery and details around him, and uses words such as sails of the barges “drifting up with the tide” and a “haze” rested on the low shores in which the audience is able to picture dark skies, with misty skies, over the water (imagery). Conrad creates a deeper and darker tone as he uses words such as “mournful gloom” and “the air was dark”, which makes the audience wonder why the sky is dark and why the surroundings are filled with gloom (tone). Conrad controls the verbal pacing and focus, as he puts a shorter sentence before a longer sentence, building the longer sentence off of the shorter sentence (syntax). Conrad says, “A haze rested on the shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark, filled with gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth”, in the short sentence more emphasis is placed on the “haze” and darkness. The longer sentence goes on to describe more details, building off of the “haze” and darkness.

In Heart of Darkness, the terrain and river can be contrasted as the two locations that demonstrate the notion of comparing Africa to Europe as a reinforced theme, along with the ideas of racism. Throughout Marlow’s journey in Africa, he describes the terrain with misery as he mentions the African citizens suffering from starvation and death, some of the conditions rarely shown out to the public in Europe. In addition, there was little to describe nature. While based on Marlow’s perspective it indicated that everywhere in Africa showed signs of suffering.

Damien walked over to Alexandria in the Amity compound and laid a hand on her shoulder. She turned around. "Oh, hey." she said. "Yeah, hey. I 'm thinking of joining the Erudite 's side." he said. "What? Why?" she asked, staring at him with a puzzled expression on her face. "I feel that the Erudite are correct. The Abnegation should be gone. Also, you should come with me." he said. "What the hell is wrong with you?" she asked. "I know what 's right and wrong, Lex." Damien said, glaring at her. "No, you don 't." Alexandria said. Damien put a hand on the shoulder where she got shot and put pressure on it as his revenge. "DAMN YOU, LEX. ALWAYS UNDERESTIMATING ME!" he screamed.

The legacy of Heart of Darkness is credited more to Joseph Conrad’s ensnaring form than his message. Readers enamored with the first few pages of “ still and exquisite brilliance” as an unnamed Narrator drifts down the Thames at the helm of a yacht are unceremoniously thrust into a framed narrative of a man who ventures in and out of the heart of the Congo (Conrad 4). Marlow begins his tale by suggesting that England too, was once a dark place to be conquered. “The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.” He reflects, “ What redeems it is the idea only, and an unselfish belief in the idea- something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer sacrifice to.” (Conrad 7). At once condemning conquest

The stories in the book Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad and the movie Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola are very similar. The main characters in both are similar, but do have their differences, like who they were before they took the job, the settings they were put in, .

A shrill sound pierced the air and a silver bullet slammed into Melchizedek's chest. He stumbled backwards, his back hitting the bark of the ancient oak tree.

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Alan strode out the door just as skittish as he was when he walked in. He went over his plan in his head a countless amount of times. He was meeting Diana for dinner that night. He was going to put the potion into her wine. Diana wasn’t aware that Alan had such a tremendous admiration for her. He was strolling along, almost to the restaurant when a bluebird swooped down and snatched the love potion from Alan’s grip.

1. determiner: Words such as “a/an,” “the,” “some,” and “my” are determiners, which are utilized to “determine” what nouns mean. “A/an” and “the” can be considered to be the most significant determiners. “A/an” and “the” also are known as articles. A more comprehensive list of determiners would include “any,” “each,” “every,” “no,” “his,” “this/that,” “these/those,” “his,” “her,” “its,” “your,” “our,” and “their.” A concept basic to articles is countability, and they pose difficult challenges for L2 learners regarding, for example, which nouns are countable or uncountable in English since countability, while very important, can be difficult to quantify. An example regarding the use of the article would be the novel Heart of Darkness. Not having an article at the beginning of this title appears more a matter of style than grammar, and also is a characteristic of headlines, titles, and names. So while conventionally a countable noun (such as heart) needs a determiner (the, a, this, or my), not applying this rule could be confusing to an L2 learner expecting an article.

hen the air had stopped. Jade had squinted her eyes and saw a glimpse of Becky. Becky was lying on her back side. She didn 't have her glasses on nor were her knee socks or red bunny slippers. Jade looked at herself at the mirror across the room. She didn 't look different at all. Becky coughed but remained sleeping.

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote and published many novels and short stories throughout his career, including several published anonymously. More often readers find a his work to be different types of romance followed and surrounded with twists of darkness. Based on Hawthorne’s biography you can find most of his characters and the darkness in his stories, come from personal experience. The mix of success and failure during Hawthorne’s writing career resembles parts in his story “The Devil in Manuscript” leading to an unfathomable twist for his readers.

As Marlow’s shares his story with those listening, or not listening, on the Nellie, he continually points out the wastefulness the Europeans exhibited in the Belgium controlled Congo region. The first place he lands in Africa is the Company Station. He witnesses the wastefulness immediately. He saw a “railway truck lying there on its back” and personified it as “dead as the carcass of some animal” (Conrad 19). Nearby were some workers assigned to building a railway who was blowing up a cliff with “objectless blasting” (Conrad 19). The adjectives he uses to describe the Europeans actions connote that this was a waste of energy, brain power, and company resources. As a sailor, Marlow was probably used to efficiency and maximum production. Being that sailors are out on the sea for long periods of time, they cannot afford to waste resources because it can endanger the whole crew. This stuns Marlow. While trying to imperialize the Congo, the government “squandered millions on these infernal and desolate shores’, of the ‘millions flung away’ which ‘brought nothing but wars and disasters of all kinds’” (Raskin 122). This was a sentiment shared by a fellow sailor named Rimbaud who also realized the waste of colonializing Africa. Millions were being squandered on broken trucks, inefficiency, and the destruction of a land and its peoples just so ivory and status could be gained. Further along the path, Marlow avoids a hole with a “purpose of which I found nearly impossible to

Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, perfectly illustrates Hopkins’ idea of the influence of surroundings. In the novel, Conrad, through Marlow’s dialogue, describes Marlow’s journey from a typical, ignorant, biased English citizen through the uncontrolled wilderness of the Belgian Congo back to Europe, where he today is telling the story of the change caused by his surroundings. Marlow is clearly psychologically and morally influenced by his upbringing, his journey in unrestrained territory, and his return into European society. Throughout Heart of Darkness, using Marlow, Conrad argues that while the unrestrained interior wilderness of the Congo corrupts people into an animalistic state, European society blinds its citizens from the truth of themselves and the truth of the world. By doing so, Conrad argues that surroundings not only affect one’s character but also cause irreversible changes of one’s disposition and world perception.

In the novel Heart of Darkness, the characters who spend time in the heart of the jungle in the Congo, seem to change as time passes by. One of the men who is most dramatically affected from this change is Mr. Kurtz. This relates to what Pauline Hopkins once said in Contending Forces, “ And, after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate, destiny or any supernatural agency.” Mr. Kurtz goes from a man with a loving fiance and great attributes to man with no morals and the need for power.

In the book "Heart of Darkness", the author signifies a view of human nature that is somewhat rare. In fact, it suggests there is a negative view towards human nature. In this book, readers can get the hint that human nature has and still is an increasingly immense subject in which holds a variety of different subjects such as patterns of passionate choices, emotions, and overall human appetites and needs. In this book, readers can be immersed to see that our human nature remains quite the same as it did in early and primeval days. In "Heart of Darkness", there are discussions of primordial behaviors stemming and awakening through individuals like Kurtz who is a fictional character in the book. He is a trader of ivory in Africa and a leader and commander of a trading post, where he very much follows a string of dominating behavior through his position as a demigod among African natives.