The Jungle, By Upton Sinclair. ... In fact, a main theme presented throughout The Jungle is hard work in hard times. ... Because The Novel is based in the industrial, early 1900's and Sinclair's main point is to show the trials of working men, the industrial environment of Packingtown, Chicago is a perfect setting for a narration that will support the themes of the novel. ... Research will however, prove that Sinclair did investigate the meat packing industry rather heavily before writing The Jungle. ... After reading Sinclair's The Jungle one will gain sympathy and understandin...

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His significance in this act changes from literal at that point in the novel to figurative when taken in context with the later events in Heart of Darkness. When the doctor asks in Marlow has a family history of mental illness, there is immediate foreshadowing about the madness that is to come in the novel. ... Conrad provides several examples of this theme throughout the novel. ... In the most literal sense, the "Heart of Darkness " is referring to the mysterious jungles of Africa that Marlow and his crew are entering. The jungle and river is frequently described as dark, brown, and swallowi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate