This ambiguity and complexity can also be observed when we regard the depiction of women in Heart of Darkness. The story has been told from a very limited point of view and the characters we meet in the novel are as Marlow has witnessed them or as he wants the reader to know them. Marlow’s narrative is primarily the story of Kurtz and concerns itself with a masculine world in which women either are largely absent or they are present as a means of achieving man’s need or as an object of masculine
the real reason never involves the stated reason. • The real reason for a quest is to always gain self-knowledge. Connection: In the movie “Shrek,” Shrek starts off as a hostile and solitary ogre who dislikes all and is disliked by all. After he meets Donkey (who sort of acts like a guide for Shrek, teaching him how to be a more compassionate and amiable person and a friend) and the fairy tale characters invade his swamp, he goes to Lord Farquad who promises to give Shrek back
as a guardian. Thus, for example, mothers tied a red thread on their child’s arm to protect them from diseases and evil eyes. A magic circle in the middle of which no evil could penetrate and cause harm to humans was painted with a red paint. Also, people used the items of red color as a means of protection against snakes, wolves, insects, mice and moles (Zabozlaeva 1996: 45). Red as a symbol of shame and disgrace In Puritan New England of the 17th-18th centuries, a woman convicted of an illicit relationship