The journey through the Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a voyage through the treacherous Congo River. ... (Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad p.77) Marlow had second thoughts about his trip up the Congo River. ... Later on Kurtz, is terribly ill laying on his death bed. ... (Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad p.153) Mourning from the death of Marlow's helmsman and Kurtz, Marlow's trip through the Congo River was a journey through madness and hell. ... For example, battling with the savages during the fog, which resulted his helmsman death, and later on Kurtz death. ...

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Marlow, the main character in Heart of Darkness, often recognizes the Europeans' dehumanization of the Africans. ... As He descends further down the hill he comes to a gloomy place--what he calls the "Grove of Death" (Conrad 30). ... The accountant is so agitated by the interruptions that he says, "when one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to death" (Conrad 32). ... As Willard journeys up the River, he takes a parallel journey into the darkness of his own mind. ... The Accountant is blinded by the dark chaos that surrounds the camp, and simi...

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In the first poem "Death, Be not Proud" John Donne takes the power away from death. Donne says, death is like a short sleep and nobody should be scared of death. ... Even though, they both speak about death, Thomas places emphasis on fight against death, while Donne takes the power from death. ... It gives the clear image of darkness by saying the sun for that day is dying. ... By contrasting images of light and darkness in the poem makes the warmth of living and the coldness of death that encourages people to fight against death. ...

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One of the strongest, if not the strongest, images of darkness and death is shown in the last two lines of the poem. ... The death of the light here shows us blackness: the ultimate darkness. This one line brings to light all of the darkness, death, and evil that is in this poem. Dylan Thomas" "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is covered with the themes of darkness and death. In every stanza of this classic poem, Thomas gives his reader some image of death or darkness. ...

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In Memoriam was published in 1850, and are a collection of 131 poems that deal with death and the grieving process of death. ... In poem 7 from In Memoriam, there are images of darkness and loneliness. The "dark house", the "long unlovely street", and "doors where his heart used to beat" are images that depict loneliness and darkness. ... Tennyson also looks at death as a good thing. ... Each poem shows Tennyson's different views on death from anger, guilt and loneliness, to happiness and the acceptance of death. ...

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At the start of line twenty-five the poem stops making nice imagery and allusions, and turns to a more dark somber piece. The poet talks a lot about solitude and death. ... They all pertain to death and his mistress being the one who is dead. ... The poems shift form light-hearted to dark and dreary gives the reader a better understanding of how the poet might feel at this time. ... It makes one feel quite sad for this poet who loved his mistress so much and now can only speak of her in death. ...

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The "visage of war" sees only death, and speaks only death. ... The symbolism in "Face of War" strongly shows the dark aspects of war. ... Dalí chose dull colors like brown, black, and dark orange, which show sadness and misery. ... He wanted to show how war is terrible and by using dark and dull colors, he does just that. ... Dark orange represents deceit and distrust. ...

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The physical wrongdoing of Colonel Pyncheon against Matthew Maule was avenged at the former's death, with the curse being fulfilled. ... It is not Maule's death which needs avenging, but the anguish caused by the Pyncheon family's greed. ... The Colonel's ancient tyranny had led to Alice's disgrace and death. ... Jeffrey can be compared to Midas, the mythical king whose touch was a golden death. ... The stern, granite-hearted man beneath is the death. ...

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Music plays a key role in the deep, dark, sadness of the movie. ... The setting affects the deep and dark mood in a few different ways. ... To add to the tragic death, he was stranded on an island all alone with nothing to eat but seaweed, and no one knew where he was. Both places represent a dark setting. ... The island represents a dark mood because it rained at night, and Alec had to search for shelter. ...

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The key to Ghoulding's dark view of mankind is his intricate plot, but more importantly, the characters by which the plot revolves. ... The death of Simon may only be a prelude to the extreme murder on the island, as his death could be considered an accident. ... In his tale of human flaw, there is no need to search for a message; his dark outlook on the destiny of man reaches out and grabs you by the collar. He has effectively explored and explained (from his point of view) the darkness of man, his essential flaw - his willingness to destroy another, also known as, "the dirtiest thing...

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Red signifying blood and danger, black signifying danger and death, and gray being the time between death and danger. ... The woods was described dark and black the author even went so far as to say "the woods gaped open like a dark opened mouth " (O'connor,542) this lets us as the readers feel a sense of something bad is going to happen in the woods. ... These symbols and indirect way of telling the story all lead up to the time of death for the family. ... Since she knew something about him and since he was on the run he could not let it get back out, and this lead to the outcome of him...

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Them the end of the day is announced with the evening bell and darkness will be coming soon. ... He uses the metaphor of the sunset and evening star to compare his call to death, because the daylight represents life, and the darkness represents death. ... Being near his death, he does not want anyone mourning his death. ... With the sounds of the waves hitting the sandbar, to sounds of mourning after a death of a loved one. ... Death is not a matter that should be taken lightly. ...

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He has captured countless moments of life and death. ... Interestingly, a pug nosed, short, and dark woman seeming to be a humble and sincere person is excluded out of the focused zone and also the policeman in the same axis as with the cardinal suggesting the connection between church and state. ... The "death of an American soldier" in Leipzig is an example from Cappa's myriad of photographs of capturing life and death. The soldier in the photograph appears to have been shot resulting to probably a bloody instant death. ... The death of a Republican soldier of Spain "falling backwards, ...

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When people are faced with the death of a loved one they show different feelings and attitudes about the situation and deal with it in many different ways. ... Auden a certain attitude is conveyed about the death of a loved one. In Macbeth by Shakespeare the character Macbeth is faced with the death of his wife and has a very dark and depressing attitude about it. ... Auden the speaker experiences the death of a loved one in a less spiteful way. ... Although the character of Macbeth and the speaker of the poem show different attitudes about the love they have lost, they show the same idea...

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During the middle part of the poem, the author tries to find the good in death. One can infer this by the line "Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning." ... It also shows some kind of acceptance for death. ... That is life and death. ... The speaker is a person that values his/her life and will continue to fight each day for as long as they can to greet each morning with a sense of calmness because they have won another battle with darkness. ...

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The color black is an obvious allusion to several facets of the above hypothesis: black represents evil, of which we all, as humans, must fight; black represents death, which, in a manner of speaking, we are all dead until, according to the Christian way of looking at things, "born again,"" in a belief in Christ as savior. ... Hooper, the minister in this story, makes the point that all men "even ministers "are sinners or afflicted with evil or fallen, etc., when he says that "I , perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil- (635). ...

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This dream offers him a solution, an eternal reunion with his lost family through death. ... "People move from the darkness outside the house to the darkness inside". ... Mikal's description of Gary's death in this passage is suitable for a hero. ... Mikal experiences death by his own hand, he feels his life exit his body and collapse into nothingness. Instead of joining his family, Mikal finds a dark beyond filled with nothing. ...

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Then is change to the battle scene with the dark and grey with the sound of wind, music is slow but mysterious. Maximus look worry as he was in Germania, at this time the background is dark, got lots of the burning tree with the sound of horse yelling. ... When we first saw him his face look worry, from nice and quiet place to cold, fight and death. ...

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For men such as scholars or philosophers, who are learned and wise, despite all the knowledge they have accumulated, all the wisdom they have gained, they understand that "dark is right." ... However, they do not let death come and take them away too easily. ... They fight even death. ... In this tercet, we see many words that evoke in us the mournful atmosphere of death: "grave," "death," "blind sight," and "the dying of the light." ... "I am not going to fight against death but for life" (Segard, 1). ...

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The cast was wearing darker, easier to see colors. ... The dark make-up and clothing also made it clear that the cast was involved in a tragedy. ... This brought out the earthy, garden aspect of the scene as well as the dark, deep tragedy of the children's deaths. ... Everything was dark and dreary. ...

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I overheard the janitor at the Academy later mention that he found a death note, with multiple names including the dead children and my brother's name, in a professor's desk. ... I once saw this young girl sitting down a dark hallway in the abandoned infirmary humming and rocking herself with one of the dolls in her hand. ... It was so dark that I groped my surroundings as I slowly creped down the dark and gloomy stairwell. ... Hopefully this cycle of death will be over. ... Thankfully I was able to graduate and other than a fear of dolls, and the dark, I am otherwise okay. ...

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Wise men fight off death. Good men deny the reaper his spoils, wild men do not relinquish life to the dark. ... Wise men with their knowledge know that death is inevitable in the end. They still fight off death because they are not done in this world as of yet. ... These men too fight off death. ...

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Her name means "of the cross" in Latin which refers to the sacrificial death that Tessie Hutchinson gets. ... Summers" name symbolizes life or something happy but in the end he is the one that is in control of handing out death to someone. ... The color stands for not only the death that it hands out yearly, but also the sin that comes along with the lottery. ... Its" true color is beginning to show but is overshadowed by the dark shades of black. ...

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After learning of Nouty's death, he battles with a divided self. ... With Nouty's death, Synesios appears lost, struggling and lonely. ... Relying on suggestions of Denis de Rougemont to paint a picture of evil it is possible to put an image to darkness. ... By finding God, controlling desires, and facing darkness with light, you can be converted. ... With the shattering, (Nouty's leaving and death for Synesios) comes a battle with good and evil in which only good can become the victor and love for all prevails. ...

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After this, Emil divides the world into two crude categories: the light and the dark. ... His struggle between the forces of good and evil are represented by the realms of light and darkness, as well as by the people he meets during his life. ... A classic bully, Kromer introduces Emil to the world of darkness with simple blackmail. ... Emil said, "Once again, I belonged wholly to the dark world, to the Devil, and in that world I counted as a great guy." ... Eventually, he somewhat gives into that desire and joins the hunters for a celebration shortly before Simon's death. ...

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