Question I will address in my essay

I am going to address the topic of Marlows lie and the struggle within that deals with both personal hypocrisy and putting others at discomfort.

Marlows lie

Marlow begins the novel illustrating how much he detests lies. However throughout the novel his Id gets  challenged leading marlow to later lie to the intended. He lies essentially not only to others but to himself.

Current state of student reading

While reading can be enjoyable and even more entertaining than a movie, I feel that students nowadays are too concerned with other activities or simply do not have the patients to finnish a novel. The explanation for this lack of stamina could be societies stress on media and technology. Kids in today's world now have books that read to them, web sights that summarize entire novels for them, and movies that come out before one even is assigned the book to read. For these reasons we now see students who neglect their text and resort to faster, easier methods of reading.

HOD

The more I read the more I begin to appreciate the intricate detail and innovative style of Conrad's writting. I'm really beginning to understand and get into the story

group work

I worked with ashton on comparing the heart of darkness to freuds theory on humans. I really liked working with ashton and feel like our combined ideas really led me to have a broader view of both freuds theory and about human nature in general.

Heart of Darkness

I think that it is very telling that three of the main charaters are only described by their occupation. This technique give a very impersonal and unattached feel which allows the reader to put more of their own connotation upon each character.

Sigmund Freud

I believe that his theories are very messed up for our time. He talks of agression and insest. While the time period in which he was born/ which he was raised may explain his pessimistic and angry opinions of man; however, his ideas and theories are so interesting that many world famous artists have incorperated his theories into their masterpieces.