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…To read a book, is to plunge into a dark abyss, not knowing what is next and not knowing if or when an end is near. But just words written on paper do not do this to one's mind. A book needs creativity, imagination, it needs to make the mind think…

…Shakespeare's Macbeth is full of different types of imagery. Many of these images are themes that run throughout the entire play at different times. Five of these images are nature, paradoxes, manhood, masks and light vs. darkness. Nature…

…- to forgive mankind’s eternal sins. This creed leads Brown into the dark forest to confront evil. Hawthorne doesn’t state why Brown must do this on this night of all nights “twixt now and sunrise” (Hawthorne 260). Perhaps the good man was awakening…

…, communication is very important in our society and a critical part of human expression. While reading Heart of Darkness, I noticed a big difference in the levels of communication that were given to the Europeans and the Africans. This drastic difference in speech…

…was trying to go through a slow painful redemption and eventually reaching purification. Hester waited until the community has no dark bitter past to remember of her sin. In the mean time, the guilt caused pain in the reverend’s heart. Dimmesdale’s guilt was so…

…The film “Apocalypse Now”, directed by Francis Coppola, is loosely based upon Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness” in which both works share similar themes and motifs. Both are accounts of Man’s journey into his self, and the discoveries…

…fluttering in the wind, but it came back to them. The paper read, “COMING OCTOBER TWENTY-FOURTH!!”…“COOGER AND DARK’S CARNIVAL!!” Which was tomorrow. The boys read all the names of all the acts, the made-up names of the carnies, and freaks. Then the wind whipped…

…of evil. Grendel lived in darkness. Darkness symbolizes evil. It says in the poem “Grendel made his home in a hell not a hell but earth”/ (13,41). It describes Grendel as, “being spawned in that slime, conceived by a pain of those monsters born of Cain…

…, signifying the death and loss of war. As H.D.’s speaker exposes the dark side of Helen, Poe’s whimsically pours his heart out to this image of beauty. His words exude admiration and love, contributing to his romantic depiction. As he journeys far and wide…

…on his feet" (172). Sir Lucan's death went into great grotesque description, there was nothing light- hearted about it. After the fight was over with, Malory used the phrase " a great heap of dead men " (172) to describe the sight. Once again nothing…