In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad reverses the tradition by using the color of white as a symbol for darkness and mystery. ... Every human has dark sides, and Marlow is fascinated in his discovery of his own dark side. ... Like Marlow, white men who have come to Africa with hopes of spreading white light and white civilization to the darkness find the only darkness of their hearts. ... Ironically, the blacks are with less darkness and evil. ... In the novel where everything is associated with gloom and darkness, white stands out as if stronger hope exists, but Conrad used it to emphasize...

• Word Count: 572
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• Grade Level: High School

In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad reverses the tradition by using the color of white as a symbol for darkness and mystery. ... Every human has dark sides, and Marlow is fascinated in his discovery of his own dark side. ... Like Marlow, white men who have come to Africa with hopes of spreading white light and white civilization to the darkness find the only darkness of their hearts. ... Ironically, the blacks are with less darkness and evil. ... In the novel where everything is associated with gloom and darkness, white stands out as if stronger hope exists, but Conrad used it to emphasize ...

• Word Count: 572
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In Heart of Darkness, the protagonist and narrotor within the narrative, Marlow, expresses various opinions towards people that he encounters. ... Yes, I know, I said with something like despair in my heart- (2073). ...

• Word Count: 1278
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• Grade Level: High School

"Heart of Darkness" many tragedies befall Charlie Marlow when he decides to take a trip to Africa. ... When he reaches their, his career takes a whole new step, he is shocked to see how the whites were treating black people as their slaves (this is what is meant by "Heart of Darkness"). ... In Conrad's Heart of Darkness Marlowe, the main character, symbolizes the positiveness of Imperialism. ... Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Inherent inside every human soul is a savage evil side that remains repressed by society. ... In the novel "Heart of Darkness Charles was treated in the same w...

• Word Count: 1164
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• Grade Level: High School

Hello, my name is Marlow, and I am here today to talk about my story of the disastrous experiences I had in the river Congo that I"m sure all of you are familiar with. Today though I will discuss just exactly how I told the story, how I developed my own character and how I am used in revealing the m...

• Word Count: 387
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• Grade Level: High School

The gathering in the ballroom was the start of a race against time, himself, and the darkness that white men wanted to keep his kind in. ... The obscurity scared the narrator because he really did not understand true darkness, that of the heart. ...

• Word Count: 499
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• Grade Level: High School

Does it really matter if William Shakespeare dated a black woman? Did he actually date a black woman? The author does describe the lady he loved as being black. If the lady he describes is black, did it possibly change his writing style in any shape or form? Does the fact that he describes a bl...

• Word Count: 301
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The implication is that Captain Delano is a trusting good-hearted fellow who believes in his own ability to judge those around him. ... "Whether, in view of what humanity is capable, such a trait implies, along with a benevolent heart, more than ordinary quickness and accuracy of intellectual perception, may be left to the wise determine." ... Fortunately, in "Benito Cereno" Melville brought light on the dark subject of slavery....

• Word Count: 927
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• Grade Level: High School

One of the major issues in Shakespeare's Othello is the impact of the race of the main character, Othello. His skin color is non-white, usually portrayed as African. Othello is referred to by his name only seventeen times in the play. He is referred to as "The Moor" fifty-eight times. Webster's Dict...

• Word Count: 535
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• Grade Level: High School

Chopin related L'Abri with darkness when she described it as melancholy and the buildings "black like a cowl" and Desiree "shuddered at the sight of it" (Chopin). ... She did not even stand up to Armand to understand the meaning of his darker skin. ... Mallard has heart problems which made me view her as a naturally weaker character at the beginning of the story. ...

• Word Count: 1578
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When a black person is fair skinned, his chances for passing as white are higher than a darker skinned black person. ... Similarly, he is not dark enough to appear to be a Negroid. ... Sometimes it seems to me that I have never really been a Negro, that I have been only a privileged spectator of their inner life; at other times I feel that I have been a coward, a deserter, and I am possessed by a strange longing for my mother's people". (99) Here the narrator reveals his heart felt emotions and freely expresses them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Either save a friend that is a slave and go to hell for making a bad decision or do what society taught you and in your heart not save your friend. ... But through the years that is exactly what it has come to. " Niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but when ever one was talking and letting on to know all about such things, was corked up and had to take a back seat." ...

• Word Count: 1050
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• Grade Level: High School

The Emancipation Proclamation, as King says, put hope into Negro hearts but, they didn't know that they were still not free. ... Parents taught their children to hate those with darker skin color and, children are extremely sensitive when young and they only want to get along with everybody but when you have peers tearing you down, it hurts your self-esteem and state of mind. ... Sadly, when your skin is darker than the white man's, you are automatically looked at with a suspicious eye. ...

• Word Count: 1861
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In contrast, a different side of nature is depicted in Hughes poem, Song for a Dark Girl. ... For her, the image of this tree brings anguish to the soul: Way Down South in Dixie (break the heart of me) they hung my black young lover to a crossroads tree. ...

• Word Count: 1518
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Within these two poems he is able to bring people closer to the heart of primitive human nature in his race than anyone ever before (Laryea 109). ... He seeks to redeem the darker brother throughout his works of poetry (Mead 132). ...

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods. He is still regarded mainly as the bl...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as insanity; something so obscene the very obscenity of it (Rather than its threat) terrifies you... My skin was dark. ...

• Word Count: 2270
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• Grade Level: High School

The Harlem Renaissance brought many great changes. It was time for the African American people to express their culture. Many famous people began their writing and gained recognition during that time. The Harlem Renaissance took place during the 1920's and 1930's. During that time many African Ameri...

• Word Count: 1984
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Claude McKay illustrates the struggle of black people in a very racist environment in his poem "Enslaved," "Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, for weary centuries despised, oppressed, enslaved and lynched, denied a human place in the great life line of the Christian West; and in the Black Land disinherited, robbed in the ancient country of its birth, my heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lead, for this my race that has no home on earth. Then from the dark depths of my soul I cry to the avenging angel to consume the white man's world of wonders utterly: let it be...

• Word Count: 2640
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School