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- 4831: Heart Of Darkness Kurtz Accord
- ... life had now become clear to Kurtz. Marlow now knew that inside of every man is an evil side. When Marlow states that Kurtz was a remarkable man he is not saying Kurtz was a great man. One must remember that remarkable means impressive or unusual, not great. Kurtz certainly was unusual. Upon Marlow's arrival at Kurtz s ivory death compound he is introduced to another admirer of Kurtz. The man is a twenty-five-year-old Russian seaman and has been ...
- 4832: Heart Of Darkness 4
- ... believes that the very wilderness speaks to Kurtz, telling him secrets; whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude --and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating (98). A man s growth is through his experiences, and both Marlow and Kurtz grow, through their respective journeys, at a meteoric rate. Kurtz, dying, struggles against ... connection with Kurtz from the moment the name was given to him, He [Marlow] recognizes a kindred spirit [Kurtz] (Walker, xiv). Marlow is tormented by both Kurtz and his abhorrent secret. He, also being a great man, keeps the torment to himself. Having fought the monster, and ebbed the temptation to become one, Marlow looked into the void --which was the darkness-- and survived.
- 4833: Hamlet Literary Analysis
- In Hamlet , the tragedy by William Shakespeare, Hamlet, the prince of Denmark withholds a great internal conflict throughout the play. As a result, Hamlet contradicts himself many times throughout out the play, which caused the unnecessary death of many others. As well as trying to be true to himself, Hamlet ... says, "I should ha fatted all the region kites with this slave s offal. Bloody, bawdy villain! O, vengeance! Why, what an ass am I" (2.2.533-537). Act 2, scene 2 is a great example of Hamlet s tremendous problem. Hamlet makes this big buildup of what he should have done and how he will seek revenge, but then contradicts himself in his next statement. After all of the ...
- 4834: Hamlet Character Analysis For
- ... other movie versions of the play, one directed by Francis Zefferilli, and another directed by Kenneth Branagh. 2Hamlet has this same main characteristic, and additional emotions, that branch off of this main characteristic such as depression and anger, in both movie versions of the play. He is a very emotional character throughout all of the different productions. It is his stage of emotion that notably alters from Shakespeare s version, to ... as the closest version to the original. The only major difference being the time period that the movie is set in, the nineteenth century. Hamlet s distinguished character dissimilarities in Branagh s movie are his depression, and his acts of violence. He is clearly more depressed in the opening scene of the movie. He unquestionably had a very strong love for his father - "He was a man, take him for all ...
- 4835: How Does Arthur Miller Expect
- ... not wanting any trouble, just wanting his niece, in more ways than one. Eddie was a family man, he kept his home nice and he looked after all his family and friends, there was a great respect for him and he was loved by many. Even the people against him, had to love him. He was popular among his friends and colleagues and he was sociable, going bowling with his friends ... wasn t a fool, he was just oblivious to the fact that Catherine was going to grow up, to love others but him, he couldn t understand why this had to happen. Alfieri has a great deal of respect for Eddie, like the other characters in the play. When Eddie is killed by Marco in a fit of rage, he lies, dying in Beatrice s arms, only then, does he realize ...
- 4836: Good And Evil In The Crucible
- ... rigid stipulations on deviation, fear of the unknown, and mass confusion. These conditions left Salem susceptible to an apparent epidemic such as witchcraft. The susceptibility that Salem fell victim to, was the cause of a great tragedy which saw twenty townspeople hung at the hands of the state. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a story of a great catastrophe which highlights a free man s courageous and never-ending fight against mass pressures to make him bow down in conformity (intro.-x) and shows how hysteria can be used for evil purposes in ...
- 4837: Glass Menagerie 2
- The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie, written in 1945 by Tennessee Williams, remains today as a great literary masterpiece. Williams gave unimaginable depth and uniqueness to each of his characters. Even though the play was written in the mid-forties it is timeless, in that the problems and troubles of the characters can be related to life today, more than 50 years later. The Glass Menagerie is a great play with a central theme of escape and many symbols to support this theme. In the following I will give a brief summary and discuss the theme. The Glass Menagerie begins with Tom introducing the ...
- 4838: Franny And Zooey And The Razor
- ... to want to act in the first place. I mean all the ego. 6 Furthermore, in The Razor s Edge, Larry did not go back to school after the war, but he did have a great opportunity to be his best friend Gray Maturin s partner in a successful business operation, which he later rejected. Elliot could not understand why Larry would turn down this kind opportunity. Elliot explains what Larry ... how they feel without putting both of them down, and making them feel like fools. Furthermore, since the two main characters put their search above their families and friends, they make their loved ones feel great disappointment and everlasting sadness. At the beginning of the novel when Franny and Lane were dining together, he noticed that she had changed, and he felt very insecure about how there relationship was going. Lane ...
- 4839: Frankenstein 2
- ... learns more about Victor Frankenstein and his creature that he hopes to create. The reader understands why he wants to create his creature and why after he creates it, he rejects it. Victor Frankenstein had great hopes for his creature, but after he is done, he can't understand why it came out the way it did. Before Victor started his project on creating the creature, he planned that this would be a great achievement. He believed that he could create a human in which he can give life to. His hope was to be able to give life to the bodies that have already died. Victor dreams of ...
- 4840: France And England In A Tale O
- ... Cities proved a disappointment even to critics who had received Dickens's earlier works favourably. In The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-4), John Forster argued that "there was probably never a book by a great humourist, and an artist so prolific in the conception of character, with so little humour and so few rememberable figures" (qtd. in P. Collins 422). However, Forster praised the novel when it was first published, referring in particular to the "subtlety with which a private history is associated with a most vivid expression of the spirit of the days of the great French Revolution" (qtd. in P. Collins 424). This comment suggests that Dickens successfully integrated fiction and history, but it is clear from what Forster says later that he prefers the fiction to the rendering of ...
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