Joseph Schumpeter

The horrors of the past do not fade with time - whether the horrors occur in one’s lifetime or decades before. In Heart of Darkness and Native Guard, Joseph Conrad and Natasha Trethewey respectively chronicle their characters’ journeys as they struggle to overcome the demons of their personal histories and of history itself. With persistent reflection, both characters achieve a clearer understanding of their pasts, allowing them to transform according to the truths they have discovered. Conrad and

Animal Farm or Russian Revolution? According to the book How to Read Literature like a Professor, “nearly all writing is political on some level.” (Foster 111). In the book Animal Farm, George Orwell conveys a clear message to his readers, stating that greed and hypocrisy can turn an entire society upside-down. Through his use of allegories and symbolism, Orwell exposes the true nature of Stalinist Russia; where the population was manipulated by various means, including propaganda, violence, and

Light and dark are generally juxtaposed to 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

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the belittling of the bird functions to highlight how the Europeans feel that the Congolese are inferior and how they effortlessly take away the Congoleses’ freedoms. Similarly, in The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the absence of the bird functions to symbolize the lack of freedom and hope… when the man and son finally reached the coast, they were struck by a sense of failure- they were not free from the cruelty of the post-apocalyptic world. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of

Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ leaves the reader with a sense that something is not quite right in regards to late nineteenth century society, and the human condition. Throughout the text, Marlow's vast descriptions of the landscape leave a captivating, yet eery sensation on the reader. One must consider that Marlow's distinct lack of adjectival emphasis towards the unnamed characters of the novella is done so to dehumanise members of society, whether they be of western or eastern ethnicity

This passage from the text could be interpreted a variety of different ways. Although the entire novel is written in a mostly satirical tone, Heller uses very sarcastic language in these few lines as he has Yossarian describe himself as “untouchable”, when he clearly is not, as he is both in the hospital multiple times in the novel and also in a war that he desperately wants to get out of. Also, the description of him as both real and fake characters and historical figures, stands out mainly due

In 1949, Joseph Campbell published a book which he named 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'. In the book, Campbell debated that time and time again, he notices a regularly reoccurring pattern that could be noticed within heroic fiction. Back when the eldest documented myths and legends; he referred to this as the monomyth (Campbell borrowed the word monomyth from James Joyce's 'Finnegan’s Wake' in 1939), suggesting a rotation of narrative structure that could be acknowledged in whole or parts in stories

I my own religion, which was featured in the readings, which is obviously most interesting to me, and would like to take the opportunity to correct the record of information provided about my religion; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With very little effort I was able to determine that the majority of the information provided was not from scholarly works but from anti-Mormon campaigns and literature, which motivations are to misrepresent, confuse, and misdirect. I struggle to find

Communication takes place through spoken and written language—words hold both literal and emotional meaning, which creates a bridge from abstract experiences to rational ideas. Language's role as the medium of meaning allows authors to appropriate linguistic patterns from other sources in order to modify or extend existing ideas in society (Foster 14). However, language accomplishes little beyond modifying preexisting ideas. Because it applies to entire societies, it captures only the crudest and

What makes Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness more than the run of the mill adventure tale, is its moral complexity. By the end of the novel, we find a protagonist who has immense appreciation for a man who lacks honest redemption, the mysterious Mr. Kurtz. It is the literal vivaciousness and unyielding spirit of this man, his pure intentionality, which Marlow finds so entrancing and which leaves the reader with larger questions regarding the human capacity. Therefore, Heart of Darkness is profoundly