Why Men Lie (and always will) by Vince Passaro Before I pulled my Roberto Duran‚ before I moved out‚ before I lost the ability to go forward in what had been a long and rich and difficult and painful and profoundly rewarding marriage with three great children—before I lost the strength and desire‚ to put the matter more precisely‚ to try to be the person I was supposed to be and hide the one I’d become‚ I asked my wife: “Why do men lie so much?” I can see now that the long pondering I’d been doing
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of Darkness. It was not ever for the widespread advocation of the rape and pillage of the native’s land and recourses‚ but an in depth allegory of what those same transgressions can cause. Kurtz‚ the man who had been exploiting and dominating the natives for his own gain‚ died and dramatic death. Also‚ Marlow
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distastefully on them. He comments about an African boy who he describes has having " sunken eyes...enormous and vacant" Marlow says‚ "The man seemed young – almost a boy – but you know with them it’s hard to tell." He then further describes two Africans sitting at a tree. "Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up..." (Conrad 156). Marlow then watches aghast‚ as one of the Africans gets up and crawls to the river to get a drink. As the African does this marrow
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An Analysis of a Passage from Heart of Darkness The chosen passage in this analysis is “Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly‚ while a big crowd of his people watched him‚ thunderstruck...(8)”. This passage is relevant to the motif of savagery when the exploitation of colonies in Africa was widespread. During this period‚ there was an abuse of the native inhabitants and natural resources‚ and Joseph Conrad invites the reader to see how this so-called process of expansion and progress became
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as the unknown. There is a sense of ignorance in Africa because of the uncivilized culture. Darkness could also symbolize the evil within the soul of every man and woman. For example‚ the character Kurtz is not a perfect man because he portrays greed and selfishness when he searches for the ivory. Kurtz goes to Africa as a leader of positive civilization but deteriorates into something negative because his evilness takes over. Lastly‚ darkness symbolizes the physical end of the day. The story is told
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Synopsis Feeling dissatisfied from the traditional approaches‚ I found shelter in Reader Response theory‚ which acknowledged not only my role as a reader in giving meaning to the text but also considered me a scholar who had the right and duty to stand in judgement on the text. In the first chapter the rise of English is traced‚ in order to approach the methods in the teaching of English which were employed when English was established as an academic subject in the universities of England‚ which
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AN IMAGE OF AFRICA / 1783 BIBLIOGRAPHY Called "the father of the Afdcan novel‚" Chinua Achebe is best known for his fiction foregrounding the political struggles of Nigeria. His novels to date are Things Fall .\part (I 958)‚ No LOllger at Ease (I 960)‚ Arrow of God (1964)‚ A Man of the People ( 1966)‚ and Atlthills of tT‚e Sc‚.vamlah (I987). He has also published two short story collections‚ an award-winning volume of poetry‚ four works of juvenile literature‚ and four edited collections
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the audience of the present day no longer views what is seen within ‘Heart of Darkness’ as a simple adventure‚ but as a description of an act of marginalization. Conrad’s character Marlow acts as an outsider‚ an observer inviting us as the readers to follow his journey. In his first encounter with the natives‚ Marlow likens them to wild animals‚ their ‘...breasts panted…’ and with ‘…violently dilated nostrils…creatures rose…and went of on all-fours…’ Conrad’s original audience may not have recognized
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primarily focus on the British imperialism of Africa (imperialism itself remains an underlying theme)‚ details such as the lack of names and the removal of human characteristics for the African’s Marlow encounters show the common ideal held throughout the British crew of white supremacy. Similarly‚ when Kurtz is discovered with the native Africans‚ his involvement with a black woman is seen as “an important aspect of the horror of his ‘going native’” (Hoeller 10). The fact that they kept his interaction
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women are. They live in a world of their own‚ and there had never been anything like it‚ and never can be” (27). This socially accepted idea of women is normalized due to no significant female figure being brought to the surface throughout the novel. Marlow has the perception that all women are naive and impractical. Male characteristics also play a large role in the portrayal of women. The stereotypical male during this time period was thought of as aggressive and fearless. “I remembered his abject
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