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…In “Heart of Darkness” and “Things Fall Apart” two characters faced a tragic ending. Kurtz in “Heart of Darkness” and Okonkwo in “Things Fall Apart”. Both started with respect and a sense of nobility but yet both had a tragic ending. The tales comes from…

…line, the mirror says that it thinks the wall is part of its heart. This shows feelings for the wall. When someone says something is a part of his heart, it generally means it is something he loves. Does the mirror love this wall? Or has it simply grown…

…take refuge in a place far removed from the law that governs the ever stern market place. This wild refuge peers into the soul in a way that one might reveal hidden desires and passions. Symbolically, the forest is passion, the heart, darkness, and light…

…of the New York city, the film begins in such a ghostlike atmosphere that catches the hearts of all the audience. Thus the tone of the film has been settled--the dark and even melancholy beginning has already suggested to the audience that the story won't…

…to symbolize an emotional state. Charles Dickens also elaborates on the mood of a scene by using dark and light colors and using emotion to make the scene more dramatic. Dickens uses his stories to create a change of heart in his readers. Charles Dickens…

…the same scenario, a dilapidated old house facing the dirty, deserted platform surrounded by the darkness of night. He tries to remember the name of this station but fails. "Well, why do I need to know the name? All I need is the passing through of a train…

…Random poems that I wrote a few years ago, some of them are a bit amateurish and naïve, but read on! <Tab/>Through the Ice A frozen face of Ice, Silky hand so cold, A heart of stone, A burning core from the fires…

…of the greatest in twentieth century (Boyle 90). Conrad's current reputation rests with such relatively early works a "Lordd Jim", "Heart of Darkness", and "Nostromo", in which imagery, symbolism, and shifts in time and perspective combine to create an intriguing…

…In the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad one of the major themes is the perversity of the Congo. What is good and evil in the European world becomes distorted and hazy in the heart of Africa. To the outside world white is good and black…

…and the architecture symbolises his dark and devious mind. First of all, the story?s setting is dark and sinister, which reinforces Montresor?s malevolent persona. Montresor masterminds a plan to get revenge at Fortunato: to bait, hook, reel him in, and finish him off…