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Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and contrasted in many ways. By focusing on their endings and on the character of Kurtz, contrasting the meanings of the horror in each media emerges. In the novel the horror reflects Kurtz tragedy of…

My Antonia is a modernist novel that recounts and celebrates the past through the relationship of man and the natural world. Cather incorporates an epigraph at the start of the novel from Virgil’s Georgics that means “The best days…are the first to flee,” which is integrated by many elements throughout the story as it is…

Upton Sinclair has famously remarked, “All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. ” These words are especially befitting for Sinclair’s most famous novel, The Jungle. Sinclair’s novel follows the devastating collapse of an immigrant Lithuanian family as a result of the ruthless practices of capitalism. Thus,…

A bureaucracy is a large organization that is designed to achieve a common goal through a hierarchical organization. The classic perspective on bureaucracy was proposed by German sociologist, Max Weber at the beginning of 20th century. Weber developed a theory of authority structures and described organizational activity based on authority relations. He described an ideal…

            The novel “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane depicts the story of a young man who enlisted to become a member of the regiment during Civil War. Henry Fleming, the “young feller” and the main character of the novel, dreams of becoming a hero of a great battle and be recognized by…

Redemption is defined as the act, process, or instance of redeeming–:to free from what distresses or harms: to help overcome something detrimental; to release from blame or debt; to free from the consequences of sin, to change for the better. It cannot be accomplished in a single day. Redemption is a process that can take…

In the classic novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, the character of Holden is introduced. Over the course of the novel, we learn a great deal about the bond that used to exist between Holden and a childhood friend named Jane. The two have not communicated in a while and he…

In Invisible Man, Ellison is able to continue extended metaphors that fit the wide breadth of his character’s problem with visibility. For example, the words muttered by the Narrator about Dry. Blessed “He was the example of everything hoped to be: Influential with wealthy men all over the country; consulted in matters concerning the race;…

“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a wasteland.”It is common knowledge that war is physically destructive and treacherous. It is common knowledge that soldiers all around the world perish daily. In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, a new aspect of war is introduced….

We would wish to believe that everything in life is capable, or beyond the threshold of making flawlessness. It would be an absolute dream to look upon each twenty-four hours with a positive mentality. We try to set up our lives to the point where this flawlessness may come true at times, although, it most…