The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. ... In his book The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad explores man's inner darkness as he travels through the Congo in search of another trader named Kurtz. Later he relates his dark, hopeless story to a group of friends. ... "Ralph wept for the loss of innocence, the darkness of man's heart -. ... It forces the reader to see that the darkness is inside them, too. ...

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The shadow of blood and death darkens their life. ... However, in fact, Teddy secretly searches for "Andrew Laeddis", an arsonist who causes the fire that burns his wife to death. ... Suspicious of their attitude, "Teddy" associates his experience during the liberation of Dachau death camp – psychiatric experiments on living humans – and believes the same thing is also conducted on this island. ... " Shutter Island might be the wonderland for those psychiatric patients, a paradise in which they can make up their own world as they wish: no violence, no death...

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This exhibition, titled Mutation, is for audiences who like to delve deep and deconstruct the notions behind the human mind and indulge themselves in the darker aspects of art. ... The mysterious man is surrounded by darkness, and the town is shrouded by shadows and smoke. ... These dark colours also represent the depressing mood that was present in Sheffield at that time. ... A sense of movement is present within Painting 1977, with the use of swirled lines giving the effect of smoke and darkness drifting aimlessly throughout the disrupted city. ... The disfiguration of her face by the pigski...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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The Viet Cong appear as a mass of barbarians running through the dark, trying to overrun the fort, who get exterminated by electrified fences. ... Nick ultimately loses the game, metaphorically illustrating a death due to his experiences in the war. ... The central plot, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is fictional and far-fetched. ...

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First, the Emperor didn't not intervene in political affairs as he was considered to be above such petty human politics, and second, the Japanese code of honor which puts death before dishonor. ... The Japanese people had such a passion for their Emperor that if there was the slightest hint that he was going to be treated like a common war criminal, the Japanese people, man, woman, and children would rather fight to the death before they allow such a thing to take place. ... The major concern for the Japanese military was the loss of honor; they had a code of "death before dishonor" (Long...

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The Western society entered an age of darkness and pessimism. ... [and] crouching like cats we run on, overwhelmed by this wave that bears us along, that fills us with ferocity, turning us into thugs, into murderers, into God only knows what devils.""10 The soldiers that managed to survive this horror felt lost and weary when they had to return home: "Our knowledge of life is limited to death. ...

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Yet at his death he was respected and mourned not only by his own nation, but by the world, for which he had done so much when he led the fight against Nazi tyranny and refused to surrender or to despair of victory. ...

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In 1927, Earl joined General Motors as chief stylist, but with the depression and subsequently the war, Earl's creativity "was temporarily stifled" as automakers, reflecting the mood of the nation, "painted most cars in drab colors: black, brown, dark green, and occasionally navy blue. ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself in...

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Nuclear Weapons in Asia Nuclear weapons are used for many different reasons. Some countries develop nuclear weapons and sell the information to other countries. Nuclear weapons can be used for a country to gain recognition. Still other countries use them to present a threat to another countr...

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The Cold War is a term used to describe the period of non-violent conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, between the mid-1940s and lasted until the early 1990s. This essay seeks to examine the political relations between the leaders of Britain, t...

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Although the assassination precipitated the events that led to war, the true causes of the Great War were much deeper and much more convoluted than a gunshot and the death of a statesman. ... Not only did his work attack religion and morality, but it also presented the idea of a "ubermensch," or the "superman:" I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the out of the dark cloud man. ...

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