The Secret Agent

Sort By:
Page 1 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Good Essays

    each author approaches the different problematics and personal feelings and struggles that their characters have to deal with all throughout their novels. The secret agent and Saturday night Sunday morning both address the issues of anarchy, masculinity, femininity and heterosexual relationships but in different time periods. The secret agent is a pre-war work while on the other hand, Saturday night Sunday morning is a post-war novel, which makes it interesting to compare and contrast the character’s

    • 981 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Secret Agent

    • 1239 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Conrad’s The Secret Agent is a before-its-time political masterpiece in the form of fictional literature that grips the minds of an audience who may or may not have ever thought to question the majority existence. After the occurrences of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, scholars, educators, and the general public, in a desperate attempt to justify what was happening in the United States, took notice of an otherwise buried great work. The terrorist theme in The Secret Agent is initially

    • 1239 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Secret Agent Essay

    • 1562 Words
    • 7 Pages

    of conventional realism, a narrative method that appears deceptively simple. The Secret Agent holds great deal of the social concerns. It is considered supreme masterpieces, it is a brilliantly depicting an ironic narrative of London's seedy and dispossessed underworld of revolutionist and anarchists. He have been in Polish in exile, and having experience of working with revolutionists and espionage agents in Switzerland and Marseilles, Conrad is well-educated, sophisticated, intelligent

    • 1562 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    They, unlike past acquaintances, have no problem knowing me only as Tiffany. But I, secret agent Yoojin, have deceived them with my clever disguise as Tiffany! Socially, I am Yoojin to those who met me as Yoojin and I am Tiffany to those who meet me as Tiffany. Say either name to their respective groups, and the same person comes to mind:

    • 646 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Secret Agent Stereotypes

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages

    potential business to provide early warning and help to predict the moves of competitors, customers, and governments’ (Calof and Wright, 2008, p. 723; Gilad, 1996). Introduction Competitive Intelligence (CI) comes from shadows of company "secret agent (spy) vs. secret agent" stereotypes, but now present day CI experts are legally and ethically collecting, studying, and making use of information about the abilities, vulnerabilities, and intentions of their competitors, and tracking developments within the

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Love is the one of the most powerful feelings one can experience. The other feeling is fear. When a situation combines the both of them, which will prevail? The passage chosen comes from Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress where the Narrator experiences this struggle after being attacked and returning to an empty home. Only a fantasy about the Little Seamstress could remedy the gloom which hangs over him. The passage illustrates that the Narrator has a deep longing for the Little

    • 771 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    commander none is more intimate than the secret agent, of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agent: of all matter none is more confidential than those relating to secret operation.” The career of a Secret Service Agent is adroit and propitious, because of the people in that field. The research will describe the career of a S.S.A, what is required to become a successful person in life, and the impact this career has on society.The Secret Service Division was created on July 5,

    • 976 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    “Karl Yundt, Comrade Ossipon and Michaelis, the lazy, ineffective anarchists who discuss their plan’s in Mr. Verloc’s shop. In The Secret Agent, the inanimate world’s refusal to submit to the ordering devices of the human mind…The piano, with its absurd exuberance, deafens the beer-drinkers, reduces the little professor’s dreams of power to ridicule, as he retires to the tune of ‘Blue Bells of Scotland.'". (Modern Imagination). Initially an emotional outburst following the association

    • 983 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    the spy spirit in brand new casino game Secret Agent: The Reel Story! //header// Secret Agent: The Reel Story (SkillOnNet) //copy// If you enjoy detective stories, then you’re sure to love Secret Agent: The Reel Story from SkillOnNet. Combining the mystery adventure of a private eye with the fast-paced action and fun of video slots, Secret Agent: The Reel Story video slot offers you the chance to win some real cash prizes. Here’s our review of Secret Agent: The Reel Story to tell you everything

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    be waiting for death. Yet, those who choose to learn and change will be the ones who live a better and richer life. In T.S. Eliot’s “Little Gilling” the poem is about existence and faults behind the lessons of humanity. In Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent” is about how time acts as an external pressure that forces the characters to choose what is worth living for and what is worth dying for. Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” is about two separate, but parallel identities that are impervious to change

    • 1923 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
Previous
Page12345678950