Plot Overview Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. ... The cruelty and squalor of imperial enterprise contrasts sharply with the impassive and majestic jungle that surrounds the white man's settlements, making them appear to be tiny islands amidst a vast darkness. ... She is still in mourning, even though it has been over a year since Kurtz's death, and she praises him as a paragon of virtue and achievement. ... Kurtz can be criticized in the same t...

• Word Count: 3088
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is revealed in the novel by the aunt when she describes Marlow's journey as a "Mission"; Marlow is the main character of the novel, Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness. ... Marlow's journey of self-discovery begins in London on the "Nellie, a cruising yawl" surrounded by "gloom"; this is the opening scene that begins Marlow's journey into the darkness. ... I have chosen firstly the death of Ikemefuma to demonstrate the fallibility of Okonkwo and his fellow tribesmen's ethics. ... Conrad confirms the vileness of colonisation whilst Achebe counteracts the good that ...

• Word Count: 1884
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A race was systematically destroyed, but what's behind this astonishing number of deaths is something even scarier - the racism ideology carried in countless people's mind and influencing their view of society. ... In Islamic world, Gypsies were considered as Christian because of their different religion believes and culture; but their dark skin and foreign-looking faces made them "Islam" in Christian society. Many Europeans associated their dark skin with the devil; others claimed that they were expiating the sin committed by their ancestor. ... They were alienated in the early deve...

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Certain poems in Songs of Innocence contain a darker tone that foreshadows, or predicts, the arrival of a more experienced perspective. ... Here the sweep's unfeeling sanctimonious parents have clothed him in the clothes of death and taught him to sing the notes of woe. ... The sweep's clothes are 'clothes of death' not just because the soot has turned them black, the colour of mourning, but also because the soot will soon kill the child. ... I believe that Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience do need to be read together in order to fully appreciate the cont...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate