Conformity

Whenever i find myself conforMing with a large group of people, a voice comes iin my head saying " do something else". Ive always like to do things the different way in life rather than do it like everybody else. I refuse to conform just for the sake of conforming but conform only if i individually choose to do so. In a class room I I'll individually choose to conform simply not to fit but to preform as a student to the best of my abilities, same thing gors with following the rules. I can easily break the rules but I INDIVIDUALLY choose not to because i want to be the best student I can be!

GRAPHIC NOVEL

I Did not picture from the graphic novel is not at all what i came up with my imagination. I imagined Gregor as an 8 legged insect type creature with a big fat body of a bug, but a head of a human. Greggor's face in the graphic novel kind of looks like a cricket rather than the human face i imagined. The Black and white imagery really illustrates the hopeless the Family especially the sister has for Gregor's transformation.



2. Kafka's description of the family on how lazy they are, forces the reader to sympathize with Gregor. Kafka uses words such as "Sluggish" to describe the father and to lazy to make it across the room in describing the mother. Kafka even has the vermin looking member of the family who was the one making money for the family before! How can we not sympathize with Gregor who was the ONLY one making money in the family and now he is a VERMIN!!

Discussion thing

Yesterday's class was a pretty interesting process in how we built on a good discussion without the help of a teacher. It was similar to a snowball effect in where the idea got bigger and bigger the more it bounced off each other. I enjoyed talking about the possibility of waking up as a Vernin. I asked the question yesterday would "your outlook on life change" as everyone aggressively answered of course, i interlay disagreed with them. If i were to wake up as a monstrous bug my outlook on life wouldn't change. I would make the most of everything I have and live each day to the fullest. I would take advantages of some of my differences and have fun with it. I would learn to love myself for it, I would learn to make money off it for helping my family, and lastly i would learn to make the world a better place because of it.

Essay Intro

The unconscious desires of human beings that are within our "Id" are powerful motivators that drive our behavior. Critic Murfin points out that no one, no even the author of a literary work is immune from his or her own sub-conscious desires. As Ross Murfin suggest, an author may write in order to "gratify secretly some forbidden wish" (118). This unconscious wish makes its way into the text by the process of displacement. In the "Heart of Darkness", Joseph Conrad explores a dark world of colonial Africa, and in doing so, plays out his own desire to be free of moral responsiblity like his strange, crazy character Kurtz. Conrad is trying to satisfy his own dream for unbridled power and Godlike status. The heart of Darkness is really in some ways a journey to Conrad's own Dark Heart at the center of his heart and soul.

Essay ideas

1. Heart of darkness is a really an expression of Conrad's own desire to be a ruler.

2. Heart of Darkness can be seen has representing the Freudian structure of the subconscious with different levels of the human mind represented by the journey of the heart of Darkness.

3. The heart of Darkness represents Conrad's unconscious fears about the world. He shows Africa to be the Dark and scary place and a place that is barely understood by him. In the book he barely mentions any African peoples name and does not give them any dignity or identity.

#6

The painting of a women holding a torch blind folded symbolized Justice. Kurtz idea of the painting is that Africa is similar to the Blind folded women in the sense that it has no direction making it difficult for Africa to prosper. In addition the painting can represent Marlow's journey to Africa with only his torch a light going exploring a world that is struggling and has no direction.

Heart of darkness question two

Marlowe believes what was done with the Roman Empire can be done with Africa. Marlowe uses great imagery in describing London through its hard times and how it soon revolutionized after colinization. After colonization London became a very rich and powerful city. Marlowe sees that Africa has enormous potential to be as successful as London during its colonization.