what are the themes from the novel heart of darkness?
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I did a dissertation on this book so I should know... (hopefully, if I can cast my mind back that far...)\n\n- There is a racist theme running through it. Look at the language Conrad uses when he discusses the natives.. they are always dark, and shadowy, making them threatening and foreign at all times. It ties in perfectly with how he describes the landscape, like when he sees the land for the first time from the boat, eerie and shadowy. Of course, the constant referencing to darkness and shadows ties in with the title! \n\n- There is an apocalyptic theme running through it, almost as though his journey along the river, further and further into darkness is a metaphor for the mad dudes (I've forgotten his name, whoops!) descent into craziness, so look at the darkness within as well, and the link between losing ones sense of englishness, and losing ones sense of identity, at the price of ones sanity. \n\nIt is not just that mad chap who is bonkers, they all are really. madness is a huge theme in the book.\n\nThat is all I can remember, hope it helps! Obviously, it could be beneficial to watch Apocalypse Now as well, as it explores the themes further, in a modern context.
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evoking associations of hate,violence,battle & war.\nback fighter is d no.1 char.for this
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There are SO MANY examples, but I will give a few to get you started. If you are unfamiliar with these works just Google or Wikipedia the titles. Not all are allusions, some are just manifestations of the themes present in these literary works.\n\nI will start with the most obvious:\n\nPygmalion (the myth)\nPygmalion (the play by George Bernard Shaw)\n\nI not sure how old you are, but the more recent adaptations of the above works would be the movie She's All That and possibly Ice Princess?(entertainment).\n\nIn advertising, they are always trying to sell you a cosmetic product that will significantly transform you from the "ugly duckling" into the "beautiful swan" .\n\nShakespeare:\n\nRomeo and Juliet --- I am sure you can find the most recent example since West Side Story and Romeo Must Die (sigh).\n\nHenry IV: Parts I and II: \n(sorry I forgot to add Henry V as well)\n\nYou see the transformation of Prince Hal from a slacker to a noble leader (Henry V), when he ascends the monarchy and makes poignant adult decisions (such as executing one of his former slacker friends for treason when he is king)\n\nModern rendition (Entertainment): It is not that recent, but The Godfather II where Michael Corleone undergoes a similar transformation (albeit in a perverted way) as he becomes the next don of the mafia. He orders the mafia to kill his brother Fredo once he discovers that he betrayed his trust as well as a friend of the family (his character was played by Robert DuVall).\n\nThe Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)\n\nThere are so many themes in this book, but the most poignant would be the self-esteem of Pecola Breedlove and the projections of images regarding color and class in her community.\n\nModern rendition (Advertising): From beauty and fitness magazines to the celebrity culture that saturate our society, we are subliminally conditioned to look a certain way in order to be desirable and loved.\n\nLike I said, so many examples. Most of the action flicks with a tormented character are versions of epic Greek and Roman poetry (Odyssey, Iliad, Aeneid).\n\nBusiness allusions are usually the vignettes and novels of Horatio Alger (i.e. rags to riches, pull yourself up by your bootstraps). \n\nMark Twain is another author whose works have been referenced, most notably in entertainment, The Prince and the Pauper and A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Once your read the plot summaries, then you know what I am talking about.\n\nBut as I stated, look through classic and modern literature of different time periods. Here some suggestions:\n\nGreek tragedies and epic poetry\nVictorian Age of British Literature (esp. Charles Dickens)\nRussian plays and novels (Chekov and Dostoevsky)\nPoems, short stories, and novels of the Harlem Renaissance (Hughes, McKay, Wright (esp. Native Son))\nFables (Aesop), "fairy tales" (Andersen, Grimm Brothers, etc.).\n\nHope that helps!! Good Luck!
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http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-roots/, that is not free, 7.99$, but that's completely worth it. \nIncludes chapter summaries, character analysis, themes, style, historical context, critical overview (essays), criticism, media adaptations, compare and contrast, topics for further study, and more. Hope, that'll help you :)
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Lost in the dark reality..\nI am true insanity..\nCold eyes watch every move..\nAs the rain falls..\nAnd the wolf calls..\nThe blood smears..\nAs I drown you in your tears.. \nLives are shattered like mirrors..\nThe lights of hope put out..\nBit by bit we are torn apart..\nYet the battle wages on..\nSome are in the darkness waiting for the dawn that will never come..\nWhile others look the pain and death in the eyes\nAnd try to save other's lives..\nBut in the end..\nWe are like sand blown away in the wind.\n\nWaiting for the cold whisper of fate..\nI am true insanity..\nSilently and gracefully I make blood drops fall from the red-purple sky..\nHe wished I would just die..\nAll this over his lie..\nI attack every Suna moon..\nAs I walk away, I leave blood on every sand dune..\nI wander through the desert..\nDrenched in blood with darkness in my hand..\nThey just cant understand..\nI am true insanity..\n\nI can no longer stand reality..\nI am true insanity..\nI am alone..\nThe only one who I trust is the voice..\nWho resides in my head..\nAnd she wants you dead..\nSo I grant her wish..\n\nShe hates all women except me and herself..\nI am true insanity\nShe fills my head with beliefs and drowns out my past with soothing songs of death..\nShe thinks of me as her daughter and calls me her little desert rose..\nA rose burned from the harsh sun.. Hated for being different..\nA rose that drenches herself in blood to be red like the others..\nYet is never the same..\nSo she hides herself in shame..\nAnd kills..\nTo have the thrills..\nAnd happiness the others have..\n\nShe sings the song desert rose when I cry..\nAnd my eyes always seem to get dry..\nThus I sing Desert Rose every Suna moon.. While I attack..\nYet there is one thing I lack..\nLove..\nIn the streets and buildings they speak of me in whispers..\nCall me the desert rose..\nSay im always close..\nThey say if you go out deep into the desert on a Suna moon you can hear me..\nWatching from the shadows of a Suna moon..
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Where the Heart is. \n\nAwesome movie, awesome book.
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allteration, theme, tone central message, hyperbole, metaphor. I think those might be some but I am in 10th grade so i dont know. i hope i helped
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1 There's sunny, a small baby, with short hair, and very sharp little spaced out teeth. She's very nice, except when someone is mean, then she bites. SHe usually only uses her teeth for good though. She only talks in ababy-like goo's and gaas that violet and her brother understand There's Violet, she's tall, with her hair always tied back when she's thiniking. She's the thiking, englineer one of the bunch. Then there's Klaus, the middle child. She has large glasses that he can't see without. He is an avid reader, and can pull unfo from his memory easily. Aunt Josephine,  a timid woman afraid of everything. Captain Sham is count Olaf in disquise. He has a peg leg. \n\n2. The theme is, "Often in life people will overcome insanely large obsactles to live, and to help their families"\n\n#3.The setting is gloomily morose (whihc means all sad and bad like)\n\n4. The conflict, in all these books, is that the children are trying to escape the deeds of Count Olaf who cleverly disquises himself in each book, attemptin got get the orphans fortune.\n\n5. They are man versus man conflicts, and tamporaily they aresolved, but they come back in the next book, with even more conflicts
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Black + Pink\nit symbolize a girl in darkness..\npretty but full with violence..
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Any of the classics .... some of my favorites include To Kill a Mockingbird, Robinson Crusoe, The REd BAdge of Courage, The Sun Also Rises, Of Mice and Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Heart of DArkness, Of Human Bondage, The HObbitt, Lord of the Rings, War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago ... should keep you busy for a while.  Good luck with it.
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I think one of the themes of the book might be that life is very unpredictable. Like Jenna, she didn't know that she was gonna be Mrs. Gladstone's driver/assistant for the summer and she didn't know that she'll meet sooo many people and everything. So i think that the theme might be "Life is unpredictable" or "Life can take you anywhere".\nAnother theme might be what's hard makes you stronger.
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Raisin in the Sun's major themes are:\nFamily strength and unity\nDreams and how they affect life\nMoney and its power\nAbortion is a subtheme\nAssimilation in the popular culture\n\nI hope this helps.  We just finished acting it out at my school.
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I had to write a paper on the Prince not to long ago, and here is a list of the major themes.  You can pick your favorite three.\n\nStatesmanship & Warcraft\n\nMachiavelli believes that good laws follow naturally from a good military. His famous statement that “the presence of sound military forces indicates the presence of sound laws” describes the relationship between developing states and war in The Prince. Machiavelli reverses the conventional understanding of war as a necessary, but not definitive, element of the development of states, and instead asserts that successful war is the very foundation upon which all states are built. Much of The Prince is devoted to describing exactly what it means to conduct a good war: how to effectively fortify a city, how to treat subjects in newly acquired territories, and how to prevent domestic insurrection that would distract from a successful war. But Machiavelli’s description of war encompasses more than just the direct use of military force—it comprises international diplomacy, domestic politics, tactical strategy, geographic mastery, and historical analysis. Within the context of Machiavelli’s Italy—when cities were constantly threatened by neighboring principalities and the area had suffered through power struggles for many years—his method of viewing almost all affairs of state through a military lens was a timely innovation in political thinking.\n\nGoodwill & Hatred\n\nTo remain in power, a prince must avoid the hatred of his people. It is not necessary for him to be loved; in fact, it is often better to for him to be feared. Being hated, however, can cause a prince’s downfall. This assertion might seem incompatible with Machiavelli’s statements on the utility of cruelty, but Machiavelli advocates the use of cruelty only insofar as it does not compromise the long-term goodwill of the people. The people’s goodwill is always the best defense against both domestic insurrection and foreign aggression. Machiavelli warns princes against doing things that might result in hatred, such as the confiscation of property or the dissolution of traditional institutions. Even installations that are normally valued for military use, such as fortresses, should be judged primarily on their potential to garner support for the prince. Indeed, only when he is absolutely sure that the people who hate him will never be able to rise against him can a prince cease to worry about incurring the hatred of any of his subjects. Ultimately, however, obtaining the goodwill of the people has little or nothing to do with a desire for the overall happiness of the populace. Rather, goodwill is a political instrument to ensure the stability of the prince’s reign.\n\nFree Will\n\nMachiavelli often uses the words “prowess” and “fortune” to describe two distinct ways in which a prince can come to power. “Prowess” refers to an individual’s talents, while “fortune” implies chance or luck. Part of Machiavelli’s aim in writing The Prince is to investigate how much of a prince’s success or failure is caused by his own free will and how much is determined by nature or the environment in which he lives. Machiavelli applies this question specifically to the failure of past Italian princes. In Chapter XXV, Machiavelli discusses the role of fortune in determining human affairs. He attempts to compromise between free will and determinism by arguing that fortune controls half of human actions and leaves the other half to free will. However, Machiavelli also argues that through foresight—a quality that he champions throughout the book—people can shield themselves against fortune’s vicissitudes. Thus, Machiavelli can be described as confident in the power of human beings to shape their destinies to a degree, but equally confident that human control over events is never absolute.\n\nVirtue\n\nMachiavelli defines virtues as qualities that are praised by others, such as generosity, co
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It seems difficult to find specific information on this novel.  A few thoughts .....\n\nThe struggle to assimilate can lead to frustration.  The need to belong and bridge the gap between two cultures can cause family turmoil and tragedy and disaster.  The pervasive sense of belonging nowhere leads to disappointment and haunted lives.  Wanting to feel at home, to be home, to have a home, can be overwhelming.\n\nThese links may help.
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The poem itself is a metaphor of BDSM games and contains quite a few implied metaphors, almost one in every line:\n\n- Exquisite is the torment of my soul.\n Torture of a body is real, torture of a soul is metaphor\n\n- Always she brings me to the brink of insanity\n To the brink of a cliff is real\n\n- Yet at the last moment, she pulls me back.\n She pulls \n\n- My darkest fantasies fulfilled through her.\n Darkest fantasies\n\n- The searing pain cauterized by her dark passion.\n Searing pain cauterized\n Dark passion\n\n- Chains and whips her means to my end\n Means to my end\n \n- For like a succubus she is insatiable,\n Metaphor, but not implied\n\n- My bondage is her release.\n Release\n\n- My pain, her pleasure.\n Nothing here\n\n- We are the outlet for each others pain\n Outlet for pain\n\n- Two lost souls intertwining and screaming out in a unified voice\n  Lost souls, souls screaming\n\n- In each other’s darkness, we find peace.\n  Darkness\n\nWho is the author?
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The scarlet letter itself, the meteor, the forest, the scaffold, the prison, Pearl - all symbols of evil or sin.  These links should help you.  Best of luck with it.
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The general theme is the passage of time, and the need or desire to live as much as we can, as deeply as we can before our time here is gone.  "Time will not be ours forever/... Suns that set may rise again;/But if once we lose this light,/'Tis with us perpetual night"\n\nIn the moment of the poem, there is the classic situation of the boy (presumably) trying to convince his love-interest, Celia, to give in to passion and enjoy the "sports of love" with him, to use the poem's language.  \n\nThe lover uses a two prong argument.\n\nFirst, he argues that time is short and they, her especially, really shouldn't waste it, "Spend not then his gifts in vain."  He invokes a responsibility not to take the gift of time and life given them for granted.  A slightly more dignified argument, yet a sense of playfullness remains: "Cannot we delude the eyes/of a few poor household spies,/Or his easier ears beguile,/So removed by our wile?"  So at the same time he rebukes her rejection (one presumes she said no, at least initially, why then the poem?) for wasting precious time, he tempts her with a conspiracy--arm's length v. intimacy.\n\nSecond, he argues that it's not the act of lovemaking that is the crime, but the tattling or telling of it:  "'Tis no sin love's fruit to steal/But the sweet theft to reveal."  Fame and rumor are equally derided in favor of the moment, of the real, which here is the joy of love.\n\nThe speaker never really loses sight of his objective, even tho he dresses it up philosophically.  Playfully, he casts these arguments about, both putting her on the defensive and drawing her into a conspiracy of "us against the world".  Ingenious, really.  And fun.  Jonson was classical poet, brilliant, witty and very clever.  If you like this poem, you might try John Donne and Robert Herrick.