Into the Darkness

Darkness… I’ve been living in darkness for who knows how long. Cold… is the only temperature I know. Silence… silence is all I can hear. Darkness, cold, and silence are the only things I’ve known for years. I remember when the guards came to my house. They were going to take my mother, but I volunteered to take her place because my mother has raised my the best she can. She worked extra hours just so I could eat. She sacraficed so much for me her only child. We used to have plenty until my father

The darkness. Such a scary or suspicious word to most people, but I know why that is. In the dark, you don't know what's expected to come or what's going to appear because you can't see anything. That can be brought out in the literal definition that there is no light or in a mysterious way of evil like a figure or shadow. Do humans actually know that darkness isn't meant to be scary but just a way of life? Yet we can't control the thoughts of humans and their perspective of everything, but we can

contextualizing and setting the scene for this analysis. The reoccurring theme within this passage is “darkness”, reappearing three times in the highlighted eight sentences, but the reality of it looms over the entire section. The question becomes whether this is referring to a physical darkness, or a more theoretical darkness. And if the latter is the case, what is represented by the

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

Perhaps, within one line, Milton describes the nature of all emitted light; that it must, if we are to call it light, be considered in relation to darkness and that darkness must be considered in relation to light; that a thing cannot be without its opposite, since any one member of an antithesis cannot exist without a counter member, or an anti-member; as a white horse cannot be compared to a black one without the black one being present; A cannot be compared to B unless B is present; by extension

Heart of Darkness, he proves that all humans ultimately have some form of dark within their soul. Even through the title one can see the irony between the heart, showing light and humanity, and the darkness, displaying evil and immoral. The protagonist, Marlow, listens to other members of the company illustrate Kurtz as both “a universal genius” (Conrad 33) and as a man with enough power to frighten the manager (Conrad 37). Throughout the novel Kurtz symbolizes the key theme of darkness and savagery

highlight the maleficent and the beneficent. Alternatively, in both Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey, light and dark symbolism is used to convey that an outward appearance can conflict with what is lying underneath. Conrad shows that greed can be hidden under seemingly good intentions, and Trethewey shows that physical traits do not tell one’s whole story. In the novella Heart of Darkness, Conrad uses light and dark to represent life and death. Although the Europeans

Darkness. Stench. Silence. Those were the few things that I saw currently surrounded by. They were the only things I knew at that point. I opened my eyes, only to find them being shadowed by darkness. I was blindfolded or at least I assumed I was. My senses awoke and heighted as fear ripped through my body. Dampness, that’s all I could smell, it was a different type of damp. It was not a old woodly structure full of mold nor was it a building that surrounded by the lake, steam or damp. It had

The Light and Dark of Colonialism in Heart of Darkness       In the opening of his novel, Heart of Darkness, Conrad, through Marlow, establishes his thoughts on colonialism. He says that conquerors only use brute force, "nothing to boast of" because it arises, by accident, from another's weakness. Marlow compares his subsequent tale of colonialism with that of the Roman colonization of Northern Europe and the fascination associated with such an endeavor. However, Marlow challenges this viewpoint

Joseph Conrad uses light and darkness in Heart of Darkness to demonstrate that humans are not innately evil but rather a mixture of the two. The good -- then light -- can be overpowered by the evil -- then darkness -- when the characters refuse to see the value of the individual. Conrad goes on to show that light can embody evil instead of goodness similar to how Dave Eggers uses light and darkness in The Circle. Through this juxtaposition, both Conrad and Eggers highlight the ignorance and refusal