One offers a searing condemnation of gendered stereotypes, yet in this pairing, it makes the mesmerising, violent rebirth of the latter all the more breath-taking.
One offers a searing condemnation of gendered stereotypes, yet in this pairing, it makes the mesmerising, violent rebirth of the latter all the more breath-taking.
"Heart of Darkness" extends not just a critique of colonialist thought, but the psychological struggle it endows on the individual when its immorality is exposed.
Marlow's struggle to reconcile his narrated experiences give insight into the turmoil left in the wake of a Western, colonial ideology.
On the notion that the the “thundercloud of a common crisis” in which the characters find themselves is a product of their self-denial.
On the proposition that in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", Williams exposes the destructive impact of repressed feeling in a climate of social conservatism
Marlow's journey up the Congo River unearths far more when abstracted out of a post-colonial lens and gleaned as a tale of self-introspection.