Section 1: A description of the dark side of human nature. ... He expresses dark and gloomy moods through the use of the themes death, revenge and destruction, and the use of gothic settings. ... Poe never got over her death and many think that she is the motivation behind his works that revolved around death and insanity (Sova, 34-35). ... At the end of the story, on his death bed, the minister says that he sees "on every on visage a Black Veil" (End of book). ... Everyone has a dark side and a compassionate side. ...

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In this novella the title reveals the motif of darkness that is strong throughout the story; " absolutely everything in the book is cloaked in darkness" (Spark Notes, "Themes, Motifs and Symbols"). ... The second is centered on Europe and imperialism, and the figurative darkness of it; lastly, the main interpretation of darkness is directly related to Kurtz and the complete darkness of his heart and soul. ... It had become a place of darkness" (Conrad 11). ... This shows that he is the product of his upbringing, he grew up in the darkness of Europe and imperialism, and it has caused him to ...

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In most stories and novels black is the symbolic color of death or sadness, loneliness or greed, but the color that represents those words in Heart of Darkness is white. ... The jungle symbolizes life and death. ... But, the jungle can also lead to death by disease, animals, starvation, heat, and solitude. ... Darkness is death, loneliness, sickness, curiosity, and evil. ... It leads people to death and insanity. ...

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For example when the narrator gives a description of the areas surrounding him he uses darkness, death, and words of dejection to explain the images he sees. ... These words imply to the reader the darkness at the center of Africa, with all the evil and death surrounding the people there. ... Referring to the death of the enslaved black men of Africa, or the death of Mr. ... Also the use of the word "bones" to describe them also infers death. Also the title "Heart of Darkness" can also be used towards the imagery of death. ...

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Heart of Darkness In just the opening pages of Heart of Darkness, Conrad's ability as a writer becomes abundantly clear, for the subliminal nature of his writing is constantly sustained. ... Conrad evokes images of death and decay through phrases such as "mournful gloom", nouns such as "dark", and definite nouns such as "Gravesend". ... The verb "toying" also suggests that imperialism involves playing with death, when there is no strong moral in doing so. ... This is an extremely dark thing for the pure white man to do. ... A reader finds that not only is the setting of the novel fil...

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Light stands for knowledge and the color white symbolizes purity and innocence while darkness signifies evil and the color black represents death. ... In order to elaborate on the cruelty of the White men from the Western world, Conrad changes the symbol of white from corresponding to purity, to representing death. ... When Marlow arrives in the Congo, he witnesses the Black men sitting in the dark, waiting for their deaths. ... The white ivory that they get also is a medium for death. Again, the white symbolizes death. ...

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"The Dark Snow" is a short story by Brendan DuBois and it was published in 1996. ... On the contrary we are constantly presented to his dark thoughts, and by the end he decides to act very immorally, by killing the harassers. ... The title of the story The Dark Snow is a reference to the narrator's service in Serbia where we can only assume that he might have killed someone by the line "I've always hated the snow (...) since something I did once () in Serbia"2. ... He is forced to remember it, as he sees the black snow, and for him, it symbolises death and reminds him of a ...

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He was in distress because he had stopped for a moment and gazed up into the darkness and realized that his previous feelings were wonderful but the only reality existed in his feelings. ... The atmosphere was dark, dismal and depressing. ... It was the winter season and street lamps were weak which gave additional images of darkness. These examples suggested images of decay, death and imprisonment. ... This gave images of escape and hope as well as opposing images of Dublin, darkness opposing light. ...

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In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad reverses the tradition by using the color of white as a symbol for darkness and mystery. ... Every human has dark sides, and Marlow is fascinated in his discovery of his own dark side. ... Ironically, the blacks are with less darkness and evil. ... Death silently turns everything white. ... After he has perceived what evil is in Africa, Marlow sees that the past and death everywhere that is white. ...

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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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The Middle Ages was also labeled as the Dark Ages. ... Ring around the rosy, a common nursery rhyme describes the Black Death. ... refers to the result of the Black Death. ... Some common symptoms of the Black Death was swelling and dark spots around the body. ... Hence the Middle Ages should be known as the Dark Ages due to the chaos that the Crusades, Black Death, and Barbarians Invasions caused....

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Marlow becomes harder and eventually indifferent to death. Williard however stays the same throughout the film, as there is nothing for him to harden too; he has already seen and experienced death by his own hand. ... Both the text "Heart of Darkness" and film "Apocalypse Now", contains a great deal of irony. ... He uses a great deal of lighting - darkness in particular to make such remarks. ... The darkness however that is in the Europeans and Kurtz in "Heart of Darkness" is carefully placed in Williard. ...

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An overriding series of symbols in Heart of Darkness is the ongoing contrast of white and black, dark and light, and respectively holding representations of good and evil. ... However, Conrad often depicts many things usually associated with light to be dark in coincidence with the glittering light shed on dark images. ... (Conrad 18) Furthermore, Conrad's frequent symbolic combination of life and death is a parallel to light and dark, echoing the fact that the two must exist simultaneously - there cannot be without the other. ... Kurtz is symbolic of inner darkness that lies deep with...

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In his poem "Darkness,"" George Gordon, Lord Byron addresses the mortality of human beings and animals through a vivid description of the destruction of life on earth. ... Not only can the individual's personality be shown by his reaction to certain death, but also his satisfaction with his life. A person who feels as if he has lived a complete life will not be so bothered by death as one who has many things left that he wishes to do. ... Perhaps Byron is expressing that, in death, humans and animals are not as different as they appear. ... Although "Darkness- is gruesomely depictin...

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In his poem "Darkness,"" George Gordon, Lord Byron addresses the mortality of human beings and animals through a vivid description of the destruction of life on earth. ... Not only can the individual's personality be shown by his reaction to certain death, but also his satisfaction with his life. A person who feels as if he has lived a complete life will not be so bothered by death as one who has many things left that he wishes to do. ... Perhaps Byron is expressing that, in death, humans and animals are not as different as they appear. ... Although "Darkness- is gruesomely depictin...

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The Visions of Light Vs Darkness When Joseph Conrad composed Heart of Darkness he created a literary masterpiece which embodied the essence of light contrasting with darkness. ... This beginning scene is the first use of the darkness. ... But darkness was here yesterday. ... The light has been unable to penetrate the darkness. ... Elaine Ward thought that this quote was: Perhaps the ultimate description of the savagery and uncivilization of the Congo as Marlow and Kurtz try to quickly escape the savagery and death of the Congo. ...

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In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad reverses the tradition by using the color of white as a symbol for darkness and mystery. ... Every human has dark sides, and Marlow is fascinated in his discovery of his own dark side. ... Ironically, the blacks are with less darkness and evil. ... Death silently turns everything white. ... After he has perceived what evil is in Africa, Marlow sees that the past and death everywhere that is white. ...

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Why is it that we can now listen to Cryptopsy's use of an aboriginal instrument in the middle of their chaotic death metal? ... As grunge died down in the middle of the decade, and the underground movement of metal (with possibly the only exception of Pantera,) turned into a haven of Death and Black Metal (I'm not complaining or anything, but I digress) bands like The Deftones (Adrenaline,'95),and Korn (s/t,'94) began to emerge from California finding a middle ground between the heaviness of metal, Depeche Mode's & The Cure's beauty, and the grunge movement's...

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I felt how big, how confoundedly big, was that thing that couldn't talk, and perhaps was death as well. ... "" Then states that: "Marlow found everywhere in Africa to be "the merry dance of death and trade." However, one of the major points that Stewart makes comes later on in the article when he says: "Heart of Darkness is the deviously mapped quest for a sequestered space beyond geographical coordinate, a recessed sector of the soul to which only death, firsthand or secondhand, can guarantee passage.... Also, he states that the only way to survive the jo...

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The only way Romeo and Juliet could be together and free of their parents was in death. ... A good example of this is Death to Smoochie, a movie starring Edward Norton and Robin Williams. ... The ending of Death to Smoochie is in fact happy, but many Dark Comedies" endings are not this cut and dry. ... In death he is free from his Tragic life and the thing he hates the most, TV. ... A Dark Comedy has a clear sense of resolution unlike the Tragicomedy. ...

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Crucible What is there about the society of Salem which allows the girls" stories to be believed? Salem is a well-known dark piece of American history. It was responsible for the deaths of innocent people who where accused of being witches. Abigail and the other girls were the cause of the ...

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However, in the novel, Heart or Darkness, Conrad uses the journey both in its literal and figurative meanings. ... Death is omnipresent and this is reflected in the death imagery used to describe the cities of Brussels and London, the Congo region and Kurtz' station. ... Marlow has to face the darkness within, very much the same thing that Kurtz fell victim to. Kurtz could not control the greed and the darkness inside of him, and it ultimately led him to become a greedy imperialist, simply controlling the weaker Africans that he was surrounded by. Marlow has to face this darkness with...

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His employer talks with him less than a minute, and the examination by the Company's doctor leave him with ideas of impending madness and death. ... Marlow is devastated by Kurtz's death and ponders suicide because he has connected with Kurtz in some strange way. ... The morbid darkness that emanates from the jungle is that of death and savagery. ... The darkness seems to be everywhere. The jungle's darkness is raw and unfiltered. ...

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Heart of Darkness The Novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is an autobiography of his journey in Congo. ... However, this meta-narrative also denotes the tapping into one's mind about a certain "darkness." ... They are described as the guards of the doors to the darkness. ... There, the hut bursts into flames and one of the black laborers is beaten near death because he seems to be the person who initiated the fire. ... It is not surprising that they ultimately died in the heart of darkness. ...

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On the other hand, Willard seemed to have a death wish. ... Darkness obviously plays an essential role in the novella as the title suggests. ... The emphasis of physical darkness and the diminishing light help to create the dark mood. ... The most obvious difference between Heart of Darkness and "Apocalypse Now " is the drug usage in "Apocalypse Now. " Heart of Darkness didn't have a hippie-surfer tripping on acid. ... He essentially was succumbed to disease and starvation, and is basically eaten alive as he nears death. ...

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