... river journeys also illustrate their advancing into the "heart of an impenetrable darkness" (50). Signs of physical fatigue play a role in both works, displaying this advancement. Although the physical aspects of the river journeys contribute in establishing the foundation for the entrance into the heart of darkness, the psychological journeys traveled by Marlow and Willard are more reflective of ... conscience float around as a negligible variable. Likewise, the pilgrims on board are also subjects of moral degeneration. As they involve themselves deeper and deeper into the vilest scrambl...

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... (and thus everything that it is) is the ultimate subconscious goal of all struggling. The search for truth, the want of truth, paradoxically, most often leads to illusion and darkness and pain. This is the case for the general spiritual state of humanity in the late Twentieth Century. In this way, truth, freedom, love, clear perception, purity, transcendence, and enlightenment are all the very same ... world with a greater sense of truth than that of the moonlight. But it, too, is a false light ... for the feelings that are appeased through sunlight are still dependent on perceiving the...

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... womb and seed germination, both of which take place in the dark; darkness is the complementary opposite of light in a fundamental duality. Darkness can also encompass a primitive chaos, and the powers of that chaos; it is not essentially evil, yet it is largely associated with death and destruction. Victor struggles with his mother's death and the evil forces, which took her away from him. He sees ... the world as dark and his mother as light, highlighting the power of his deep seeded, primitive feelings of death and longing for rebirth of himself and his mother. Victor spends time alon...

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... that they possess. These words are effective in inspiring various connotations, once more allowing ones mind to scan through different images, ideas and feelings. For example, in Blake's "London", Blake describes the street with an unusual adjective, "midnight". "Midnight" gives negative connotations about ignorance, impurity and death, as it is often recognized as the hour of greatest darkness. "Black"ning" also brings about negative connotations ... of darkness and dullness once more clarifying the overall theme of pollution and ... ...

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... -of-war between two ideologies slowly tears Hamlet apart as the story progresses. He is unable to successfully accomplish what either ideal calls for because he is unwilling to entirely forsake the other, and he "lives in death" "(handout), attempting remain in limbo, waiting for fate to step in and end it all. "[Hamlet's] acts are a commentary on his negative consciousness" "(handout), bred by his contempt ... be for he himself to heed, playfully ordering the apparition to leave, and remaining blissfully ignorant of reality in his euphoric ecstasy. Had he kept his new-found knowledge to...

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