Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Essay

His anger toward his own son seems to be why he feels as he does. His son, who was beaten by his father when he was young, knocked his father down as a teenager. Then he ran away from home and has not seen his father since.

people in his life. Each situation in the book represents a difficulty or conflict in his life. The

The expressions of the characters, caused by their surrounding, is also a factor that can alter the psychological traits in a character. The Man states “He does not trust his dreams, believing that they are "the call of languor and of death” (McCarthy 15).The man has a vivid

    Literature is never interpreted in exactly the same way by two different readers. A prime example of a work of literature that is very ambiguous is Joseph Conrad's, "Heart of Darkness". The Ambiguities that exist in this book are Marlow's relationship to colonialism, Marlow's changing feelings toward Kurtz, and Marlow's lie to the Intended at the end of the story.

In the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva is a non-fictional character that almost died just so he can find his family. He went through many struggles but overcame them in order to survive because of the desire to see his family, leadership, and hard work. The first survival factor that helped him overcome his struggles was the desire to see his family. In the novel the desire helps Salva because his family has been separated from him, so the desire to find his family led him to keep going and to never give up.

He was used to live in his brother’s shadow, but when the boat accident happened to them, he was the only one to survive. As he was always indentifying himself the less important one, he considered it was wrong that he was the one who would still have a life. As a result of nervous breakdown, he tried to kill himself with cutting his wrists in the bathroom, fortunately his father found out and save him. Then he went to the psychiatric for four months. When he comes back, there are still issues he needs to deal with.

Robert Smith became a chameleon out of the need to survive, shaped by his neglectful environment and a lifetime of extreme experiences, most which happened during the early formative years. His father, intelligent but limited by his own damaged childhood, managed to hurt everyone within his sphere of existence over the alcoholics lifetime; the man failed as a husband, father, business entrepreneur, country singer, and horse rancher. Much of Robert’s Father’s dysfunctional behavior could be blamed on Robert’s grandfather, who brutally taught the child the wrong life lessons during the rare occasions he was in the area; lessons which had little to do with good family values. Smith’s mother, though she loved all four of her children greatly, was consumed by the simple need to do both parental jobs and keep the family fed.

how much of a man he was. After he hit his father, he felt a sense of pride as if he won a prize of some sort. The act was more selfish than selfless being that he was not thanked for it. After the incident, he looks at his sisters for validation for his actions but he has never seen the difference between them or separate the roles of them from their mother. His misogynistic views are passed down from his father and this is due to his immaturity and lack of exposure to the independent world.

“Tom consoled himself for the loss of his property with the loss of his wife, for he was man of fortitude. He felt something like gratitude towards the black woodman, who he considered, had done him a kindness” (5).

betrayal, and violence. His father abandoned him seeking to find a life less confrontational to a

He gets a job as an unskilled worker in the garments industry. He is horrified to see in the newspaper: the murder of a familiar customer. He retells the tale to his shrink,

he is forced to keep the image of his father alive by writing letters pretending to be his father. In

When returning from a date Miss Kenton asks Mr. Stevens, “Are you not in the least interested in what too place tonight between my acquaintance and I?” (218). Mr. Stevens acts as though he is more interested in returning to his work when really he is dying to know. Miss Kenton does all she can to get Stevens to show some sort of emotion, but she always fails. She even tries to anger him by telling him that she and her acquaintance “often pass the time amusing [themselves] with anecdotes about [him]” (219). He just brushes her comments off and goes about his business.

In remembering himself in relationship to his father, his mother, his sister and his best friend, Tom the narrator imbues the characters with the magic he claims in his first soliloquy to possess. Although The

As the novel is illustrated based on the past life of Stevens, other characters such as Kenton and Cardinal, do not play a significant role in the novel, but are essential to bring a credible illustration of what Stevens actually is, and how his behaviour changes. Stevens’ emotional changes and his personality are depicted during the interaction with other characters in the novel through the conversation and how he describes the others. For example, father is an important part of shaping his belief of a “Great Butler”. He addresses “father” every time, and the word proves his respect towards his father as he keeps on insisting that he wants to become like his father. In his book, Stevens exemplifies his