Books have always given you the ability to explore the psyche of characters in their stories; however, the ability to compare the psychoanalytical side of the characters and the authors is not always possible. In “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad and “Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka, one can delve deep into the psyche of the characters as well as the authors who penned the stories. The psychological damage that each character goes through is more than just the plot and the setting of the stories;
gained in return. Kurtz’s desire to become godlike and his hunger for absolute power cause him to sacrifice his humanity in order to accrue more riches. Kurtz deserts his virtuous ideas and potential to do great things due to an addiction to wealth, and as a result, becomes a slave to the dark wilderness and his own lack of restraint. Before his sacrifice, Kurtz resembled a light in the darkness; he saw the cruelty and evil consuming Africa and decided to try to end it. However, his tragic flaw of hubris
magnificence of nature to express his own heart feelings and gratitude for the woman who was not there, whom he loves. In this world we can see the beauty of nature in two forms, one is the dark and terrifying side, on the other side it is attractive and lovely. Nature has existed before the commencement of human beings, which had never followed the humanity and will never but it does change the human
novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the story about a young group of schoolboys who, in a series of unfortunate events, get stranded on an uninhabited island. Throughout the novel the boys struggle to maintain order, and just when all of humanity is nearly lost among them, the chief, Ralph, stumbles onto the beach and encounteres a naval officer. It is at this point, with the rest of boys filtering out onto the beach after Ralph, where the passage begins. The officer
World War II ended in 1945, Japan was amidst an identity crisis. With six years of gruesome fighting and over 3,000,000 deaths, it appeared that all hope for humanity was lost – humans were only capable of violence. In Rashomon, Kurosawa uses a series of false flashbacks to emphasize not the meaning of truth, but the egocentric nature of humanity. By drawing a parallel between Plato’s allegory of the cave and Rashomon through the character development of the woodcutter, this paper proves that Rashomon
This story mirrored feelings of all people, as anyone can pick up, read the story and understand, relate, and be affected in someway or another. The openness of it all made it that much better, in the sense that it truly can and will affect any reader with a soul and heart for human compassion. Maybe that is what makes us so great, from all the mistakes we make, as a species we seems to always have compassion, the ability to put ourselves in another’s shoes and relate. One day, hopefully, all people
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and