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    joke he is planning. The Landlord shows Marlow and Hastings in and comments on how lost the two travelers are. Hastings reminds Marlow that if he had not been so shy they would have stopped for directions and arrived at their destination much sooner. Tony approaches Marlow and Hastings. He says that he has heard they are looking for Mr. Hardcastle. When they confirm his assumption‚ he gives them an artificially complicated set of directions. When Marlow and Hastings comment that it will be impossible

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    Stoops to Conquer a whole scene is dedicated to the servants and their incapability of being servant-like. <br> <br>In sentimental comedy plays‚ when something unhappy happened‚ the general idea was to be sad‚ yet Marlow in She stoops to Conquer attacks this idea by commenting: <br> <br>"MARLOW: Pardon me‚ madam. I was always willing to be amused. The folly of most people is rather an object of mirth than uneasiness." <br> <br>When Hastings finally declares his love for Miss Neville to her uncle‚ Mr Hardcastle

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    traditionally paired up for a critical analysis. However‚ the characters MacBeth and Kurtz in MacBeth and Heart of Darkness‚ respectively‚ prove to be worthy of comparison. MacBeth and Kurtz share many common characteristics: both have vaulting ambition that leads both to their success and their demise‚ a superiority complex‚ and both make similar sacrifices to achieve their goal. Despite their many similarities‚ MacBeth and Kurtz differ in many respects. The way the authors present each character varies

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    including his life‚ to fulfill his purpose which is to kill Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. This is important because Willard isn’t a “typical” hero; he isn’t particularly loved and admired by everyone. Throughout his journey‚ Willard is confronted by a lot of obstacles and even if he has to make difficult decisions to continue his mission and his tough quest makes him go through psychological changes‚ he never backs down. Contrary to Kurtz‚ Willard doesn’t lose himself in insanity and he continues doing what he

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    to begin with " (Goldsmith‚ 1773).Also he despises Constance He would do anything to escape the arranged marriage and actually he does. Tony loves low class characters in the Three Pigeons Marlow on the other hand must hide his love to low class character. The people who are pranked and ridicule are Mr. Marlow and Hastings two Londoner upper-class stereotypes apart from Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle‚ we can see with this Goldsmith’s bias to the lower classes Although Mr. Hardcastle is not the most discriminating

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    five acts which develops the Mr. Hardcastle’s plans to marry his daughter Kate to coy Marlow‚ the Sir Charles Marlow’s son. Mrs. Hardcastle wants her son Tony Lumpkin to marry her ward Constance Neville‚ who is in love with Marlow’s friend Hastings. A misadventure occurs when Tony mislead Marlow and Hastings into believing that Mr. Hardcastle’s home is an inn. By posing as a servant‚ Kate wins the heart of Marlow. Through various deceptions‚ Tony releases himself from his mother’s and join Constance

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    of racial inhumane words through Marlow renders his work sensitive to racial accusations. The Europeans cruelty was seen on the way they overworked the natives‚ mistreated them‚ gave them neither food nor proper medical care and left them to die. Marlow mercilessly describes a pair as bundles‚ “two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up […]” (Conrad‚ p. 28) a position that could be seen as defensive or a way in which they used to keep warm. Marlow also calls one of them a “creature

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    seventy years earlier‚ and Coppola was able to use many themes present in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to create a modernized adaptation of the novella. Destined for work in the Pentagon with an impressive resume‚ Colonel Kurtz was an exemplary soldier and leader in Vietnam. Conrad’s Kurtz was a man of many talents as he was an artist‚ writer‚ and rising politician prior to his conquest in the Congo.

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    1. Distinguished between applied and research. According to the text Research Method for Generalist Social Work it stated ‚ for generalist social workers‚ research problems or questions usually are determined by their agencies; these questions are directed at solving problem arise in practice and are iintended to produce practical outcomes. This type of research is known as applied research. When research is instead aimed at satisfying our intellectual curiosity‚ even if the results eventually will

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    With Close reference to two extracts‚ how do Conrad and Butcher make use of image of decay to convey a sense of danger? Images of decay to convey a sense of danger is presented in both extracts‚ ‘Heart of Darkness‚’ on the subject of its ‘Nature.’ Marlow felt endangered in his exploration‚ as Butcher from ‘Blood River‚’ who claimed that‚ the vast majority of deaths’ are the result not of combat‚ ‘but of the Congo’s decay.’ The idea that since Conrad’s time‚ Butcher assents that the Congo is going

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