This passage is an extract from the novel The Secret Agent‚ written in 1907 by Joseph Conrad. The novel explores themes of corruption‚ words vs reality‚ and also has an acute vision of character development. All of these elements surface within the passage and are shown through diction‚ imagery‚ setting‚ and structure. In passage chosen‚ Winnie and Stevie‚ a sister and her brother are in a cab drawn by a horse. Stevie is deeply disturbed by the driver whipping the horse‚ and jumps out of the horse
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Joseph Conrad: An Innovator in British Literature Joseph Conrad ’s innovative literature is influenced by his experiences in traveling to foreign countries around the world. Conrad ’s literature consists of the various styles of techniques he uses to display his well-recognized work as British literature. "His prose style‚ varying from eloquently sensuous to bare and astringent‚ keeps the reader in constant touch with a mature‚ truth-seeking‚ creative mind" (Hutchinson 1). Conrad ’s novels
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Joseph Conrad grew up in the Polish Ukraine‚ Polish Ukraine is a huge‚ fertile plain between the counties of Poland and Russia. Polish Ukrainewas a divided nation‚ that held four languages‚ four religions‚ and various of different social classes. Many of the families inethis area were Polish-speaking inhabitants‚ including Conrad ’s family. They belonged to the szlachta‚ a hereditary class in the aristocracy on the social hierarchy‚ combining qualities of gentry and nobility. Despite the areas poor
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Joseph Conrad‚ original name Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (born Dec. 3‚ 1857‚ Berdichev‚ Ukraine‚ Russian Empire [now Berdychiv‚ Ukraine]—died Aug. 3‚ 1924‚ Canterbury‚ Kent‚ Eng.)‚ English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent‚ whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900)‚ Nostromo(1904)‚ and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story “Heart of Darkness” (1902). During his lifetime Conrad was admired for the richness of his prose and his renderings of dangerous life at sea and
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praise and promotion of the imperialistic ideas. However‚ unlike other times in history where a nation had taken over another‚ there was criticism written by some of the writers living in the imperialistic countries. Two of these writers were Joseph Conrad‚ who wrote Heart of Darkness‚ and George Orwell‚ who wrote “Shooting an Elephant”. Both of their pieces comments on the dark side of imperialism and the effects it has on the colonized states and the people of the states. In Heart of Darkness
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The Real Horror Through the Words of Conrad The horror of Imperialism haunts Africa even today‚ and this suffering was greedily created by the Europeans for power and resources. The Europeans concluded they were helping the Africans like the Romans who helped the Europeans‚ but in reality they created intense chaos. One brave man‚ Joseph Conrad‚ spoke out against the hostility that the Europeans projected onto Africa through his controversial book‚ The Heart of Darkness. In order to reveal the unjust
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Novels do not have to be long to have credible literary merit. Such is the case with Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness is quite short‚ yet superior and intriguing‚ due to the content of the novel. Heart of Darkness is intriguing‚ like Hamlet or like a Kafka novel‚ in that readers taken by power of the story never feel quite satisfied with their attempts to intellectualize the experience (Adelman 8). Heart of Darkness was written during the time of British imperialism and extreme
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Joseph Conrad Was Confused People would think Heart of Darkness was about imperialism. It is true that the novel was mainly about imperialism. However‚ it was not fully about imperialism. Other meaningful topics inside the story are just overshadowed by it‚ and homosexual desire is one of them. In Heart of Darkness‚ in spite of its ambiguity‚ homosexual desire was implied in certain parts of the story. For instance‚ Kurtz’s “unspeakable rites” (Conrad 50)‚ involving “various lusts” (Conrad 57)‚
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it fair to call Joseph Conrad a Thoroughgoing Racist? To call someone a thoroughgoing racist is to say that they are a person who completely and knowingly considers one race of humans superior to others. This is precisely what Chinua Achebe is accusing Joseph Conrad of. It is Achebe’s opinion that Conrad wrote his ‘Heart of Darkness’ from a racist point of view intentionally to belittle Africa and its people and to raise up Europe and its people. While I agree that Joseph Conrad may have been a
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Joseph Conrad date of birth was December 3‚ 1857 (“Joseph” 1). This was the beginning of a wave that will never wash away. Conrad was just a polish child in a dangerous world. At this time‚ Poland was fighting Russia to gain back its land. Conrad escaped the reality by dreaming of traveling all over the seas (“Joseph” 1). Conrad was eight when he was first educated about the English language. His father read him Shakespeare and other English writers (“Joseph Conrad” 1). Conrad as passion for geography;
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