audience feel the madness in Salem? Miller is able to portray the madness of Salem in a variety of ways‚ throughout the whole of the play however the ending of each act allows the audience to fully feel the hysteria. By incorporating changes of key themes and ideas as well as using links throughout the text and a variety of dramatic techniques towards the end of each act‚ Miller is able to leave the audience with a sense of this madness. The ways in which he reflects the madness change from scene
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none other than Atticus Finch. Atticus solved this problem with one well placed gunshot‚ but this would be only the beginning. The rabid dog Atticus shoots is echoed later in the novel in his attempt to save the community from committing an act of madness. The responsibility of defending Tom Robinson is given to Atticus in the identical matter that Heck Tate gave Atticus the responsibility of defending the town from Tim Johnson. Shooting and wounding a rabid dog can just make the situation worse‚
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At the start of the novel‚ Marlow‚ along with the four other men‚ watch the Director of Companies. Marlow makes this note about him while the Director is looking seaward: “It was difficult to realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary‚ but behind him‚ within the brooding gloom” (1). One would think that the Director’s work would be in the future‚ out before him and waiting to be taken care of. However‚ Marlow’s remark that the Director’s work is actually behind him is quite the contrary
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and the ramifications of this behaviour is reflected in the themes of madness‚ absurdity of evil and loss of spiritual centre. A post colonial reading of these texts would explore the idea that "power and knowledge gives the Wests the power to name people‚ places and cultures and control them." - Edward Said Orientalism 1978 The value of imperial domination is explored in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness through the character Marlow and Kurtz. The novel was written during the time of New Imperialism where
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journey as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Africa. Marlow‚ through his aunt‚ lands a job as a pilot on a steamboat under the control of a Belgian business referred to as the Company. On this voyage Marlow is on a mission to meet Kurtz‚ a man whom has become quite infamous among the natives and the Europeans. Marlow’s interest in Kurtz and his prestigious yet mysterious reputation grows as the novel progresses. Marlow begins his travels through Africa and encounters a large amount of
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civilization as "a society in an advanced state of social development". Without the restraints of society‚ the behaviour of people will regress to their savage beginnings‚ due to the fact that one’s need for survival will overpower all other impulses. The descent into savagery‚ man’s inherent desire to survive over anything else‚ and the need for civilization and order shows how society unnaturally holds everyone together. Society artificially bonds everything together by imposing rules and structures and
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offer threat‚ the lack of sound could offer an even greater hazard‚ one of incognito and guerilla peril. Marlow consistently makes the menacing intentions of his surroundings known through his ironic language and ominous characterizations of his trip down the Congo. With such a passive motif as silence‚ Conrad proclaims irony proudly and affirms this novel’s cultural significance. To start‚ Marlow
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in detail 1 or 2 passages‚ discuss the ways in which Conrad presents Kurtz Conrad has created the character of Kurtz out of all the contradictions and madness of imperialism. Like Marlow‚ he is of European descent and is described as half-French and half-English. He is also described as a universal genius and also‚ like Marlow‚ Kurtz comes to Africa with noble intentions of doing good things for the dark continent. He believes that the ivory Company should help the natives to a better way
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a seaman ’s tale mixed with autobiographical elements from Conrad ’s life‚ yet the story itself refutes such interpretations: The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity‚ the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be expected)‚ and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside‚ enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze . (Miller 68) Conrad ’s story
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’Heart of Darkness’" 1. Disagree "Certainly Conrad appears to go to considerable pains to set up layers of insulation between himself and the moral universe of his history. He has‚ for example‚ a narrator behind a narrator. The primary narrator is Marlow but his account is given to us through the filter of a second‚ shadowy person. But if Conrad’s intention is to draw a cordon sanitaire between himself and the moral and psychological malaise of his narrator his care seems to me totally wasted because
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