Through the Darkness

Light and Dark Imagery in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness            Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a novel about a man named Marlow and his journey into the depths of the African Congo. Marlow is in search of a man named Kurtz, an ivory trader. Though Marlow?s physical journey seems rather simple, it takes him further into his own heart and soul than into the Congo. The setting, symbols and characters each contain light and dark images, these images shape the central theme of the novel

Darkness is within us, whether we like it or not. However, the only thing that can conquer darkness is light. What happens if there is no light? This dilemma is explored in Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness. Throughout the novel, Conrad successfully uses darkness as a symbol through the use of flies, ivory and Marlow’s journey through the Congo River. Throughout the novel, Conrad shows how as people explore the unknown they tend to lose their innocence as they are exposed to the negative aspects

Eileen Chang’s fiction light and darkness are emphasized to elicit different feelings. For instance, light can be used to illuminate desolation or obstacles that characters are hesitant to face. Meanwhile darkness can serve as an ominous precursor for calamities that have not yet unfolded. Most importantly darkness and light serve as critical links to major themes in Eileen Chang's fiction. One particular illustration of Eileen Chang's usage of light and darkness was the way she used it to focus

Darkness. It pervades every corner of this world, casting literal and metaphorical shadow over everything. Creeping in the hearts of humans, drifting across the night sky, under the bed, darkness is a terrifying, yet quintessential concept in our human mentality. And, as such, it presents itself in cultures and stories around the world to explain the unknown and the terrifying. Through the presentation of the struggle with internal and external “darkness,” both Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and

James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" the symbolic motif of light and darkness illustrates the painful nature of reality the two characters face as well as the power gained through it. The darkness represents the actuality of life on the streets of the community of Harlem, where there is little escape from the reality of drugs and crime. The persistent nature of the streets lures adolescents to use drugs as a means of escaping the darkness of their lives. The main character, Sonny, a struggling jazz musician

Living in darkness (sin) is without knowing or seeing God. In the play Macbeth, he battles with darkness. Macbeth is brought down by his own wrong doings. His ambition and deceitfulness were the elements of darkness that lead him to his ruin. After a chain of events evil and darkness starts to grow inside of Macbeth. Ambition starts to fill his mind and soul, and he asks for the darkness to hide the evil thoughts that are brewing in his mind. The craving and drive to have the crown of the king drives

by Robert frost, both authors fabricate a poem that revolves around the central idea of darkness and night. The first poem, “We grow accustomed to the dark,” Dickinson creates a speaker who addresses her audience using “we” and “our” to show the unity. She describes the idea of the hardships people encounter in life and how we will eventually seek our way out of the darkness as we always find a way to get through hardships. This is in contrast to Frost’s poem as Dickinson is trying to escape rather

This myth refers to the two sides as “natures” and “principles.” The use of “natures” implies that both good and evil existed before creation and their presence will be eternal. For example, Primal Man lost the five lesser gods of Light to Darkness and all tainted with sin. The sullied five gods used in the war, once deprived of understanding and what makes them “good,” are used as the material to make Heaven and Earth. They are a continual presence of demonic and benevolent life so long as the cosmos

grow accustomed to the Dark” by Emily Dickinson both contain a similar subject of the darkness and the night. However, the significance behind these motifs differ greatly between each poem. In Dickinson’s poem she writes in a third person point of view how one cannot see when they first walk outside immersed in darkness. A change is then made with the representation of darkness from literal to the metaphorical darkness that resides in all of us. Frost’s poem on the other hand discusses the isolation

room for a reader's imagination. With Modernism emerged the allusion, which meant that only certain aspects of the setting or scene were revealed. This provided freedom for the reader to think about what the author was presenting through the text. The work was created through the inner feelings and workings of the characters and the symbols hidden in the plot and setting. The way themes and points of view were selected went against the earlier convention also. Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams