At the beginning of the novel, Harry Potter is living in a cupboard under the stairs, suffering appalling maltreatment at the hands of the Dursley family, to whose care he was confided as an infant following the death of his parents; his mother was Mrs. ... While still preconscious in his cradle, he survived a magical assault by the infamous dark wizard Voldemort (whose name is so terrible in its effects that only Harry and Hogwarts' headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, dare pronounce it), deflecting a killing spell back upon its sender and reducing Voldemort to helplessness. ... The infamous Si...

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Heart of Darkness more accurately acted as a template for any story involving humans behaving at a basic level. ... The movie shows Willard reading on length about every aspect of the once prominent army official's life in the midst of death and examples of demeaning human behavior. ... The success of Francis Ford Coppola in imitating Heart of Darkness is seen in the manipulation of two unique periods of time in world history. ... The film Apocalypse Now emulated the truly horrendous and thought provoking themes of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. ... The novel Heart of Darkness serve...

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Heart of Darkness Essay task: Marlow's narrative presents a critical analysis of the "Empire mind- as well as being a descriptive account of a journey up the river Congo! Assess this claim with detailed reference to Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad in the year 1899, is a story about a journey up the river Congo in Africa. ... His terminal illness represents the eventual death of imperialism due to the inability to adapt and respect the culture, religion and people of the country that is being invaded. ...

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One of the keys to the relative successes of Hitler's extermination plans was that few people escaped the horrors at the end of the death march. ... As a result, the overall opposition was reduced and there was a general perception of the acceptance of the death marches as a component of the relocation process. ... They instead perceived the death marches as a relocation process that went hand in hand with the increasing development of the Jewish ghettos. ... Of the initial transport process, Weisel wrote: "The days were like nights, and the nights left the dregs of their darkness in ...

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Throughout his narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Charlie Marlow has a chance to encounter the indigenous peoples of Africa. ... The first recognition of this embodiment is the ways in which the Congolese are personified as "a treacherous appeal to the lurking death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart" (Conrad 33) and their faces as the face of a gloomy forest. In these descriptions, the wilderness is placed together with words such as evil and death, despair and gloom, locating it as not only the enemy, but also as a site of death for anyone...

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To begin with, some may argue the death penalty is a punishment created during barbaric times, but reasons to keep the death penalty alive in our system are somewhat rational. ... A recent infamous case involves mass murderer James Holmes who went on a rampage in a Colorado movie theatre during the Dark Knight Premier. ... But by giving him death, we are only relieving him of his misery in prison. ... Above all, the most important reason why death penalty pro-death penalty and anti-death penalty argue is for the sake of justice in our courts. ... The death penalty should be made obsolete throu...

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Clara's death also transformed the rebellious nation's political system, the lives of the different family members, and even the spirits in the house; from the translucent images and surreal tone, before Clara's death, to absolute realism of panic and chaos after her death. ... Clara's death sparks the shift of the tone and diction. ... Clara's death marks as the transition of Allende's diction. ... Clara's death immensely changed the lives of her family and society. ... Even Esteban Trueba grew darker and depressed, dressing in all black with his memories o...

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"Magical Death" is just one of anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon and ethnographic filmmaker Timothy Asch's collaborative projects that document the lives and culture of an indigenous Lowland South American society in Venezuela. ... Magical Death, made in 1973, portrays Yanomami shamans causing a trance through taking psycho-active drug "ebene." ... In a review of the movie for American Anthropologist in 1975, Eric Almquist noted that Magical Death "is a testing ground for cultural tolerance, a test which most of us would have to admit failing" and refers to its "visual brutality" (pp. 179)....

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In God of Small Things, Roy's uses "Heart of Darkness- to show a similarity to Conrad's novel by relating how the colonial powers invasion of India promoted darkness. ... (God of Small Things, 120) The Heart of Darkness here pertains to European style intrusion into the Indian landscape, which creates darkness. Roy relates the "Heart of Darkness- to the History House by showing the change from the History House to the Heritage House. ... The hotel's property is also the setting where Velutha's beating took place, Estha's sexual encounter, and Sophie Mol's death, w...

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Although always descriptive and colorful, nearly all gothic stories provide dark themes such as despair, death, and loss. ... You can tell with these words of staleness and dreariness that the narrator is in a place of loneliness and death, which is very common in gothic literature. ... The words "dull," "dark," and "soundless" foreshadow the evil about to happen, and the ominous clouds set the tone for the rest of the story. By describing the scenery of this story in a dark and gothic tone, Poe lets the reader know what the events later on may unfold. ... When...

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A usual horror convention is to shoot the majority of scenes at night or in the dark as it sets up a creepy unnerving atmosphere within the audience. The dark holds many negative connotations being linked to a time of death and disruption. Using the dark as lighting for murder scenes or chase scenes alerts the audience before the murder has been done. By setting a certain scene in the dark creates expectations within the audience, as it is a warning that one may occur. Dark lighting also prevents the audience from seeing everything in the shot frustrating them as it denies them from seeing pro...

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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is an excellent example of one of his darker pieces of writing. ... Hence, the woods seem to represent him: dark and mysterious, the end of life there (his suicidal thoughts), and the filling up with snow -- frigid weather represents the coldness inside of himself. ... In the third stanza two options are presented using the snow to symbolize his death and reality by the shaking of the harness and bells. ... The repetition of the last line is to signify the want for "sleep" and in this case...

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Heart of Darkness vs. ... Each journey up the tropical river is symbolic of a voyage of discovery into the dark heart of man, and an encounter with his capacity for evil. ... In both Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, the various dramatic shifts in the environment from the onset of the river journeys delineate an increasing barbarity and savagery as the characters penetrate deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. ... He has been changed, humbled by his confrontation with the darkness inherent in Kurtz, in himself, in existence. Both river journeys, each by itself literal and symbolic,...

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Yet while death is a sure thing, the human acceptance of death is not a given. ... Here Guildenstern knows his death is imminent yet he still does not want to accept it. ... They know that there is no escape and while huddled in the dark, dirty, dank room they cling to existence by whispering to themselves about how they do not want to die. Just like the virgin in the boat house, death has finally chased Rosencrantz and Guildenstern upon a boat where they find themselves in a dark confined space. ... The play portrays awareness of death as the ever-present yet ever-unknown constant in life ...

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However, his guilt for the death of his wife, Mal, often interferes with his work and leaves him with many enemies. ... Eventually, Dom successfully plants the idea with this team of talented individuals and returns home to his children and overcomes his guilt for his wife's death. ... Another moment where Mal and Dom's guilt act as a distraction is after Dom wakes up from his sedative test in Yusuf's laboratory, when he hallucinates and momentarily sees Mal sitting on a ledge in a dark background with the sound of wind blowing (Nolan 00:44:04). The darkness, eerie sound of th...

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Hamlet wishes for Claudius to join his brother there and not be given the glory of Heaven, because then he wouldn't be truly avenging his father's death. ... Not only does this soliloquy reveal the continuing conflict of Hamlet choosing to murder or not; but, it has now inflated this conflict to Hamlet only being able to put Claudius to death while he is being sinful. ... Finally, Shakespeare presents light and dark imagery when he speaks of Claudius" soul as well as the destination which he should go to. ... Additionally, darkness is a symbol of Hell, while light is a symbol of H...

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I believe that if the judicial system of the United States can choose to sentence a criminal to death, why in this cases a person can't choose to end their own life. ... At the same time, we see that everything has a dark side and euthanasia dark side is that if it were legally permitted, it could lead to a general decline in the respect for human life were euthanasia could be used to justify murders and murders thoughtout the country could escalate. Despite the dark side, we see that patients frequently suffer agony from pain that is uncontrollable and the administration of death is ...

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For example, the dramatic population increase in Europe after the Dark Ages is more directly related to the population rebuilding itself through birth rates and increased settlement as a result of the Black Death. After the Dark Ages, much of the world was trying to rebuild itself from the detrimental affects of the Black Death, so naturally there would be an increase in population. ... Had he taken a more well-rounded approach to the dramatic change Europe experienced after the Dark Ages White would have discovered that there were many more reasons than the mere innovation of the heavy plow...

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The passage, "when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain moveable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history." (2) in the opening chapter; Fate is referred to as the guillotine, which was the death and final fate in itself of all those brought to it. The guillotine was the basis of control; it was the main source of death for many, and the main source of French entertainment; the people in power of France had control of the use of the guillotine, so control switched with the switching of th...

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It portrays the events of Mary's death, Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, and the struggles and events that she must overcome in order to preserve the strength of the English Monarchy, and establish Protestantism as the chief English religion. ... The movie opens with its title theme "Overture" chorus provides a rousing, dramatic opening to the movie an immense choral and orchestral power full of suspense, darkness, and kind of scary and intimidated at all at the same time. ... The genuinely dark and evocative performance in the second track yields to the score's be...

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As the story progresses, the reader discovers that beneath his aristocratic charm, the count possesses a dark and evil soul. ... It is only when Count Dracula discusses "the crowded streets of your mighty London," that the reader can identify his lust for power as well as conquest: "I long [] to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is. ...

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The fire of the tiger's eyes in the dark night forest shows a contrast between light and dark. ... This poem, one of four "Lucy" poems included in the second volume of "Lyrical Ballads" (1800), describes the poets premonition of death as he travels towards Lucy's house. The language immediately creates a sense of foreboding, or dark prophesy: "strange fits" of passion of which the poet "dare's" to tell. ... The natural path of the moon rising and falling each night also mirrors the organic cycle of birth and growth, decay and death in the world. Wordsworth's descrip...

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If thou fail'st to find these malefactors, thou shalt own the wages of ill-gotten gains is death.... This quote further exemplifies Creon's corruption, as he threatens a soldier with death. ... Creon also realizes that Haimon's death was of his own doing because of his refusal to heed his son's advice. ... He also says, "My own blind heart has brought me from darkness to final darkness." Here he is delivered from his ignorance, where his "final darkness" is the too-late realization of his misdoings and the suffering he must now go through because of it....

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Consequently Lady Macbeth is represented as a deceitful, unnatural woman whose weakness is portrayed through her inability to resist the temptation of the evil spirits of darkness. ... In contrast upon the death of the king, his best horses; acting completely out of character: broke free from their stalls and turned on each other displaying traits of one who has turned on their master as Macbeth had on the king, displaying a disturbance of the natural order. Macbeth's portrayal as a murderous deceitful traitor, positions him in the dark light of the unnatural world. ... Lady Macbet...

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In Dubliners by James Joyce, the author examines the lives of various people across the seemingly dark and emotionally oppressive city of Dublin, Ireland. ... The city of Dublin in each story is seen as a sort of oppressive element to the characters lives, therefore casting a dark and gloomy tone on each of the stories except for perhaps, The Dead which portrays a Dublin home as not prosperous, but comfortable nonetheless, but a few people create uneasiness in the main character's life and stability. ... He didn't mean to make Lily rebuff, he was merely joking with her, but as Dubl...

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