- Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 in Poland and was exiled to Russia with his family after his father was arrested for organizing an uprising. He became a merchant seaman and traveled widely, experiences that influenced his later works.
- His most famous work, Heart of Darkness, tells the story of Marlow's journey into the Congo Free State, a private colony owned by King Leopold II of Belgium, where he searches for the mysterious Mr. Kurtz.
- The novella examines themes of colonialism and its impacts, portraying the brutality of Belgian rule in the Congo and suggesting that imperialism brings out the worst in human nature. It has had significant influence on other works of literature and film that
The full name of James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) is James Augustine Aloysius Joyce.
He is an early 20th century Irish novelist and poet.
Joyce is one of the pioneers of ‘stream of consciousness’ technique in novel and a new type of poetry called ‘Prose Poem’.
He is one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century also.
He used the style of ‘the examination of big events through small happenings in everyday lives’.
The Narrator describes a night spent on a ship in the mouth of the Thames River in England. Marlow, one of the men on board, tells of his time spent as a riverboat pilot in the Belgian Congo.
The full name of James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) is James Augustine Aloysius Joyce.
He is an early 20th century Irish novelist and poet.
Joyce is one of the pioneers of ‘stream of consciousness’ technique in novel and a new type of poetry called ‘Prose Poem’.
He is one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century also.
He used the style of ‘the examination of big events through small happenings in everyday lives’.
The Narrator describes a night spent on a ship in the mouth of the Thames River in England. Marlow, one of the men on board, tells of his time spent as a riverboat pilot in the Belgian Congo.
A very useful presentation for the students and faculty as well.
Since its publication, Heart of Darkness has fascinated readers and critics, almost all of whom regard the novel as significant because of its use of ambiguity and (in Conrad's own words) "foggishness" to dramatize Marlow's perceptions of the horrors he encounters.
The presentation is not a mere creation of the author but it is based on various sources and purely designed to assist students in their examination. Quality of this presentation cannot be compared with the original text and genuine criticism of the literature. Students are advised to prefer the original texts for better results.
A presentation prepared by one of my classmates. I have done no editing at all, I'm just uploading the presentation as it is. (Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad)
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Oscar Wilde and William Congreve are the most celebrated authors of ‘Comedy of Manners’.
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No poet has observed animals more accurately than Ted Hughes has done. His depiction of the animals observed is remarkable, vivid, startling, and truthful. He relates that animal to other creatures and also to human experiences and human concepts; represents the typical stresses and contradiction of human nature and also of the Nature.
A very useful presentation for the students and faculty as well.
Since its publication, Heart of Darkness has fascinated readers and critics, almost all of whom regard the novel as significant because of its use of ambiguity and (in Conrad's own words) "foggishness" to dramatize Marlow's perceptions of the horrors he encounters.
The presentation is not a mere creation of the author but it is based on various sources and purely designed to assist students in their examination. Quality of this presentation cannot be compared with the original text and genuine criticism of the literature. Students are advised to prefer the original texts for better results.
A presentation prepared by one of my classmates. I have done no editing at all, I'm just uploading the presentation as it is. (Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad)
E.M. Forster's A Passage to India concerns the relations between the English and the native population of India during the colonial period in which Britain ruled India. The novel takes place primarily in Chandrapore, a city along the Ganges River notable only for the nearby Marabar caves.
Dramas staged between 1660 and 1700 are called ‘Restoration Dramas’. The dramatic literature of the period was dominated by comedies called ‘Comedy of manners’. Actually ‘Restoration Comedy’ is used as a synonym for “Comedy of Manners”. The plot of the comedy, often concerned with scandal, was traditionally less important than its witty dialogues.
The comedy of manners was first developed in the new comedy of the Ancient Greek Playwright Menander. His style, elaborate plots, and stock characters were imitated by the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence, whose comedies were widely known and copied during the Renaissance. The best-known comedies of manners, however, may well be those of the French playwright Moliere.
Oscar Wilde and William Congreve are the most celebrated authors of ‘Comedy of Manners’.
Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by Eugene O'Neil.The story is a retelling of the Oresteia by Aeschylus. The characters parallel characters from the ancient Greek play
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D. H. Lawrence has displayed a bold originality of his genius and his consummate artistic finesse in Sons and Lovers. With his pioneering artistry, he deviated from the traditional patter of fiction and tried to break fresh grounds.
Sons and Lovers: A introduction to the life of David Herbert Lawrence, Vocabu...Britnie Ten
This is for students studying Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence and may want a pre- introduction to the book before they actually begin studying the novel for analysis. It contains vocabulary used in the book you may need to know, his biography and a brief synopsis of the book. It is tailored for students writing CAPE literature exams. a thorough analysis of the book will be coming in the future.
No poet has observed animals more accurately than Ted Hughes has done. His depiction of the animals observed is remarkable, vivid, startling, and truthful. He relates that animal to other creatures and also to human experiences and human concepts; represents the typical stresses and contradiction of human nature and also of the Nature.
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3. •Teodor Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski
was born in 1857 in Poland
•His father Apollo was arrested by Imperial
Russian Autorities for helping organise the
January uprising. Then his family and Joseph
were exiled in Russia. Soon both his parents
died.
•He was grown up by his uncle that made him
love the sea. His uncle allowed him to travel
at the age of 16 to Marseille avoiding the
enlistment in tsarist army.
•Conrad begun his career as a seaman, first in
french ships then in english ones. There he
could learn english, his third language.
•In 1890 he recived a commission as a
steamboat’s captain directed to Congo
•His career as a seaman and his journeys were
very important because they were subject of
the majority of his works such as: The Nigger
of Narcissus, Youth, Lord Jim, Nostromo,
The Heart of Darkness and The Shadow Line.
•He died in 1924 in Ukraine. He was buried in
Canterbury cemetery under his original polish
5. Charlie Marlow, a
mariner, is on the
ship called Nellie
with four friends
and he his talking
about a travel he
did many years
before for a belgian
company in Congo.
Marlow’s task is to
carry ivory from the
continent to the coast
and then it will be sent
in Europe.
6. When Marlow arrives to the
Company station he hears for the
first time Kurtz’s name.
Kurtz is a
company agent
who is more
efficent than
others in ivory
supplying. He’s
lost from a long
while and he
becomes an idol
7. Marlow is a steamboat captain and his
goal is to bring Kurtz back to his
motherland because he’s sick. Marlow
meets Kurts in the forest and he finds
out that he makes horrible rites.
Marlow asks him explanations but he
dies whispering the words:
9. Marlow
Marlow as well as Conrad had always
wished to visit Africa since he was a child,
both visited Congo on a steamboat and
they both were shocked by brutalities of
colonialism.
Marlow is tough, honest, capable man,
modest and he makes this travel as a
mythical journey in search of the self. His
temper allowed him not to tragress his
limits.
Moreover he’s against imperialism and
in his internal dialogue he realises that
Africans aren’t beasts but they are as
human as Europeans are. He criticizes
the Company and in general european
idea of colonization because they
exploit natives for economic gain and
they don’t educate this people in order
to improve their social condition.
10. KurtzKurtz is a very important character of the work. It
is possible to say that Conrad draws inpiration from
Georges Antoine Klein to create the character of
Kurtz, during his travel in Africa in 1890. Kurtz is
always mentioned in the novella even before Marlow
meets him, this charismatic character fascinates
not only Marlow but also the reader. He’s described
as a man superior than others. Kurtz is a Company
agent who leaves from Europe to Congo with noble
intentions, in fact he wants really know this country,
civilize it and lead it to progress. Unfortunately his
heart of darkness brings him to ambition and to the
desire to plunder ivory; Kurtz can do these things
because natives don’t rebel against him, they treat
him as a Godness, he can do of them what he wants.
The contact with wild african nature reveals
monstrous passions and brutal instincts hidden in his
unconsciousness.
Kurtz is also attracted by absolute power, he’s the symbol of western modern
man who, unlike Marlow, goes beyond all limits if there aren’t any rules that
prevent his freedom. His last words: the horror the horror can be refer to
explotation, to inexplicable rites and in general to the dark side of European
colonialism. At the end of the story through psycological analysis it is possible
12. The Heart of Darkness is set during Belgian
colonialism in Congo of King Leopold II of
Belgium, remembered as the Congo Free
State’s personal owner. This was a private
project undertaken by the King to extract
ivory from his personal colony. Under his
reign Congo was subjected to a terror regime
including atrocities such as mass killings and
mutilations. His brutal colonialism was done in
name of philanthropy and anti-slavery. His
politics reduced Africans primitive
barbarism, their sanguinary customs and the
King “civilized” them through work.
This belgian colonialism
was considered one of the
most terrible in a period
of growing doubts about
imperialist politics. Joseph
Conrad revealed in his
novel this system ofpolitical and economic dominance. In really it is
possible to considerer that instead of bringing
light in darkness, the civilizing mission shows the
darkness which is in the innerside
13.
14. Joseph Conrad uses the frame story, a story within a
story, even minor characters tell their own stories and
state their impressions about Kurtz. First there’s the
frame provided by the invisible narrator who intruces
Marlow, then the novel is characterized by shifts
backwards and forwards in Marlow’s tale. In the Heart of
Darkness and in other works Marlow is the first-person
narrator. Moreover Conrad breaks the normal time
sequence and uses time shifts to create the illusion of
life being lived by a large number of people at the same
time.
As concerning the set the author prefers
The ship, Congo river and jungle because these
isolated violent and mysterious places bring out
problems and inner conflicts of characters.
This romance is also full of
symbols:brack and white,
darck and light.
Finally Conrad doesn’t
want to amuse his
readers neither teach
them moral lessons.
His task is to explore the meaning of the human
situation and to record the complexity if life as he
15.
16. The director Francis Ford Coppola made the
movie Apocalypse Now drawing inspiration from
Heart of Darkness. This famous movie is very
similar to Joseph Conrad’s novel as concerning
the two protagonists’ temper and some sets. On
the other hand there are some differences, for
example in Heart of Darkness one of the
protagonist is called Marlow but Coppola had
changed his name in Benjamin L. Willard.
Moreover Kurtz will died because of the illness
but in the movie he will be murdered by the
colonel Willard. Even the historical background
is different in fact the movie is set during the
Vietnam war.
Movie sountrack is The
End by The Doors
The famous Ride of
Valkyries by Richard
Wagner in the scene of
helicopter attack of a
Vietnamese village
17. Some
curiosities
Heart of darkness is very famous all over the world. Some tv-
series and movies have this book as source of inspiration, they
do quotes. There is even a comic “Mind bomb ”! Its creator
took inspiration from Kurtz for one of his comic’s character.
Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, made an
episode with clear references to this novel.
http://www.wtso.net/movie/134-The_Simpsons_1717_Kiss_Kiss_Bang_Bangalore.html
