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Kelly - Blog 7
Jordan Kelly
British Literature/Composition
Period 6
13 December 2013
The power of the pen and the author wielding this scepter of imagination are literature’s deities. With the flick of a wrist, one can manipulate time, space, and destiny in any given article of literature. Similarly in the “Tragedy of Macbeth”, William Shakespeare uses this capacity to control “fate” in the character progression of Macbeth through the use of the three witches.
The plight and downfall of Macbeth was catalyzed by the three weird sisters, the witches. Since the beginning, they had plotted to submit their prophecy to Macbeth, sending him on a one-way-ticket to death through the relentless tyranny emitted from the pores of his disillusioned soul (1.1.1-10). Tangentially, in Macbeth’s moment of desperacy, the witches foretell him of his downfall, through the means of euthanasia (IV.1.13-54). Moreover, it is their interference that shaped Macbeth’s ambition into the twisted megalomaniac that he became prior to his death.
Kelly - Blog 6
Jordan Kelly
British Literature/Composition
Period 6
13 December 2013
Without light, there is no darkness. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Marlow, the main character and light-bearer of the story, recounts his past experiences and establishes the forces of light and dark. However, his definition of dark being inferior and dependent on light is incorrect because it is the European explorers’, Marlow included, light that calls an inferiority to the “dark”, when it is actually a misunderstanding and attack on the unknown. Therefore, the Heart of Darkness is the manifestation of inhumane philosophies of the “light”, brutality and negative emotion.
The Heart of Darkness can exist in anyone. However, this “darkness” can be seen more prevalently during Marlow’s voyage up the Congo. The natives rebelled against Marlow and his crew because of their “Heart of Darkness” created by the “light” of the explorers and trades that wanted to “civilize” them. Furthermore, if there had not been this “light:” there wouldn’t have been the “darkness” created from its shadow.
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