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- 1001: The Night Journey In Heart Of
- ... and meaningfulness are given in the text, through Marlow's function, serving as a conciousness. Even before the journey to the Congo, Marlow provides a sense of depravity when he comments (on page 33) that Africa ' had become a place of darkness.' Marlow further describes the Congo as ' a mighty big river resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a ...
- 1002: The Intentional Death Of Franc
- ... a lot to the imagination. At the end of the story Margaret Macomber kills her husband by accident, in order to save him from being mauled by a large Buffalo while on a safari in Africa. The mystery is whether or not this killing was truly accidental, or intentional. If it was to be considered intentional, there would certainly have to be evidence in the story suggesting such, with a clear ...
- 1003: Comparison And Contrast Of Mac
- ... king is infringing on the people’s rights, MacBeth claims only selfish intentions. Like MacBeth, Kurtz, too, starts his road to evil with ambition. Kurtz, in order to earn his Intended’s hand, goes to Africa to make something of himself. Instead of going on a "heavenly mission to civilize"(Conrad, 70) the savages, Kurtz’s intentions, from the start, are to make money as quickly as possible. And he does ...
- 1004: Everyday Use 2
- ... which was published in 1973 (Walker 73). This was in the prime of the Black Power ideologies when Black was beautiful , the Afro hairstyle was in fashion and Blacks were seeking their cultural roots in Africa, without knowing too much about the continent or the routes of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Williams 45). I believe Dee has joined the movement of the Cultural Nationalism. The Cultural Nationalists emphasized the development of ...
- 1005: Lord Of The Flies
- ... poem is in the African town of Rhodesia. It is a small town and at the edge there is a jungle. The author, during writing this, was probably in a bad mood about racism in Africa between the blacks and the whites.
- 1006: Ernest Hemingway
- ... and we must go on. At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who would be his third wife; Martha Gellhorn, a writer like himself. He went to Spain, he said, to become an "antiwar correspondent", and found that ...
- 1007: Kubla Khan
- ... was singing of Mount Abora. Mount Abora is from Milton’s Paradise lost and is a mythical heaven. This woman is described as Abyssinian. Abyssinian literally refers to the inhabitants of a place in Northern Africa, but use of word “Abyssinian” also implies the word “abyss”. The speaker must revive the heavenly song, sung by the maid, inside himself to “build that dome in the air.” Just as the sacred river ...
- 1008: Death Of A Salesmen
- ... if he does he would see himself as a failure. Willy focused most of his energy on two events, his son Biff s big football game and the regret of not accompanying his brother to Africa. When his dreams could no longer satisfy him he allowed the image of his brother, Ben, who represented success to guide him. The main tragedy of the play occurred when Willy committed suicide. To understand ...
- 1009: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
- ... practically all of her prose writing, and slips into banality when she abandons them, which is frequently the case in her poetry. The African-American traditions that Angelou uses so well can be traced from Africa to America through cultural traditions, music, and religion. At an English-as-Second-Language workshop I attended at Metro State University in St. Paul, Dr. Beverly Hill discussed how writers from different cultures often have ...
- 1010: Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre An
- ... interprets racial difference in moral and sexual terms, specifically in terms of miscegenation and contamination 8. This reflects the Victorian preoccupation that syphilis - the precursor of madness and contracted by the sexually promiscuous - originated in Africa. The commonplace assumptions of British abolitionist writing, such as Montgomery and Wilberforce, linked slavery with pervasive sexual promiscuity. The Emancipation Act had the following consequence: Licentiousness, whatever it might have been before, was almost entirely ...
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