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Kurtz Essay, Research Paper
I had read this story once before when I was a freshman at a branch campus
of Penn State called Behrend. I read it for a literature class dealing with short
stories and their analyzation. I didn?t really like the story back then, and it
really hasn?t moved-up any spots on my list of favorites. Although I really
didn?t care for the story, I did notice quite a bit of symbolism throughout the
book. Conrad seemed to use black and white as his main source of color
symbolism. Just as in the old westerns, white is good and black is bad. One
instance in which you could see this is the many times that Conrad speaks of
the white souls of the black people and the black souls of the white people
that exploit them. The old ladies in the Belgian office sat there and knitted
black wool, symbolizing the dark fate and tragedy that were to follow. You
can find many, many other examples of the usage of black and white to
symbolize feelings and emotions, as well as a few other colors. There are also
some objects that Conrad uses to create a symbolism. Take, for example, the
stick of wax that the manager breaks while he is talking about Kurtz. I don?t
know, but if you ask me the manager wishes that the wax actually was Kurtz.
I think that the oil painting that was done by Kurtz shows that he was
completely aware of what was going on and what he was getting himself into.
I also noticed that grass was mentioned a lot in the story. I remember from
my class at Behrend that the professor mentioned that Conrad liked to
include a lot of references to Biblical scripture in his works. I can?t remember
what it was supposed to mean, but I think that the grass has something to do
with the Bible. Well, even though this wasn?t the greatest book that I have
ever read, there were a lot of interesting things that it gave me to think about.
The question was posed in class on Tuesday…What kind of leader would
you be if you could make all of the rules?? You know, the longer that I sit
here and think about that question the more that I think I would be horrible.
To have the power to make all of the rules that you want…to do
ANYTHING that you wanted to do, whenever, wherever and to whomever
you wanted is just so unbelievably huge. Absolute control. I think that I
would probably go around making up all kinds of laws that I always thought
made sense. The kinds of laws that other people thought were pretty stupid.
I?m pretty sure that I would end up having some people executed (i.e.-ALL
of the people that are on death row spending up all of our tax dollars to keep
their asses alive). I can only think of a couple of people that would pay dearly
due to the fact that my laws would apply to ?crimes? that took place as far
back as I saw fit. This would only include a couple of people that I have been
acquainted with in the past. Obviously, complete power is a very scary thing.
I think that, given the opportunity, a large portion of the citizens of the world
would abuse the power given to them. I think that people would just get so
caught up in the immenseness of their power, they would just end up losing
control and doing things that they normally wouldn?t even think of doing.
Deep down, we?re all capable of some pretty evil things.