Heart of dark ness part 2 (thats right i coldnt think of a title)

                Heart of darkness has an abundance of archetypes and symbols. Darkness itself represents evil, mystery, and dismay. The natives are described as black and African creating a negative feel towards them. The sun represents wisdom and knowledge. The dancing that the Africans do leads me to believe that it represents sexual pleasure. Marlow has a almost normal “Hero’s Journey.” Marlow travels across the sea without supernatural assistance, Marlow doesn’t really have many trials to overcome but he does understand the injustice that the Africans must face on a daily bases. When Marlow at last meets Kurtz he isn’t the man he was led to believe. Marlow then returns to England and finally he is able to live life to his hearts desire.

Alright, son your gonna do this and your gonna like it.

                We now see the story being told by Rochester in part 2. Rhys does this to provide more views of the conflict of the story. This method provides insight for the readers to decide which character deserves the pity the most. We are shown that Rochester’s father will not give money to Rochester so Rochester has to marry Antoinette to make 30,000 pounds. Rochester still hunts for tail rather than the love that he gets in Jane Eyre. We can also see a lot of foreshadowing from this story that woul reveal the fate of Bertha Mason. (Probably because we read Jane Eyre) Rochester and Antoinette share a similar trait, which is their abrupt change in emotion. The story belongs to both Bertha and Rochester.  

Let's look at it this way...

                      In part one of Wide Sargasso Sea we are informed of Bertha Mason’s (Antoinette) disabled brother. I mention this fact because I believe it is a huge factor to Antoinette’s character development. We also see her mother slipping into the stages of becoming mad. Antoinette also gets her clothes stolen by a little girl (this I found hilarious) .It is also seen that Antoinette prefers to be alone. Nearing the end of part 1 a fire sets the house a blazed and kills her brother and a parrot. This fire is a symbol that carries a lot of negativity unlike in Jane Eyre where fire held both positive and negative.

okay ill tell them....

The ending was really enjoyable. The suicide, and to me I found one scene very funny. At any rate, these last few chapters revolved around Svid, Dunya, Sonya, and Rasklonikov. Svid kinda sorta kidnaps Dunya and tries to rape her. (lonely man) She tries to shoot him but misses. (wow that’s just sad I’d imagine he would be like at most 10 feet away) After the attempt at raping Dunya, Svid tells people he is leaving to AMERICA. (Cause America is the most wonderful place in the world) Svid has some crazy dreams, well crazy for him cause its nice dreams. He takes a little girl and wraps her in a blanket in one of his dreams and in the other it’s a dream about St. Peterberg flooding. After his craziness, he tells a soldier to tell people he went to AMERICA then suicides. Raskolnikov tells Dunya he commited the murders. Raskolnikov’s mother reads the article “On Crime”. Raskolnikov leaves to go confess publicly, but doesn’t cause he loses his confidence. Then he goes confesses to petrovich at the police station.

            Now overall I didn’t really enjoy reading the book, only because some paragraphs will feel like they would drag on forever. Others wouldn’t even matter, some parts the author could have left out and the book would still be the same. The overall story line, however, was captivating. I enjoyed the murder scene, the prostitution (kinda), the suicide, and the tortured mind. The book allowed for characters to be universally hated or loved and I like any story that allows readers to connect with characters. I want to know what happens to Raskolnikov, I know he confess but does he get the death penalty or what goes on there.

OKAY... I did do it, I PICKED MY NOSE... you happy. T.T

                Yay, Raskolnikov finally legitimately tells someone that he cut the bitch. What’s funny is he tells the hooker. The novel set this up t show how Raskolnikov trusts Sonya because he thinks they both need redemption cause she’s a hooker and that’s a sin (to me prostitution isn’t a big deal it’s their body why not make money off it their own way). Well, Sonya is going to wait for him and some other boring stuff. A bit later Razumikhin is trying to see if Raskolnikov is crazy or not. He brings himself to say that Raskolnikov isn’t crazy. He also tells Raskolnikov that the inspector believes that the painter is guilty of the murders. Porfiry tries to apologize to Raskolnikov and said its cause of all the evidence that added up. Then the inspector turns around and basically says “hey man you’re the one you are the murderer but you know I don’t ALL the evidence but I know it’s you.” A bit further we find Sviddy in the back room with a singer *cough cough lap dance cough cough*. Raskolnikov comes to visit blah blah then they talk about Dunya and about how Sviddy has dirt on Raskolnikov. Man a lot went down this part of the book. I still love Raskolnikov for his badass ability of being an obvious UBERMENSCH.

psh.. who are you again? and should i care?

                In this part of the novel it begins with Luzhin and his roommate Lebez-(mangled Russian name) conversing. Luzhin knows that he is no longer engaged to Dunya, but because he is just so pompous he thinks to himself “man I should have given her more stuff.” Of course I rephrased that. In the next chapter we find Katerina hosting the memorial banquet for Marmeladov. She invites people but it was generally poor people that came. Near the end of the chapter Katerina gets into a scuffle with the landlady. Hahaha man I found this part hilarious, Katerina runs to Luzhin seeking “protection” but Luzhin pushes her aside, man that was funny to me. That scene just shows how much of an ass Luzhin is. God this chapter gets keep getting funny, Luzhin like an ass tried to frame Sonya, his plot started in chapter 1 of part V when he slipped a 100 note ruble inside her pocket. However when he goes and accuses Sonya of stealing the note she denies it and it turns out se does have the note, But Luzhins roommate (mangled Russian name) bursts in and tells everyone it was planted by Luzhin. WOO HOO in your face ass. It seems as though all three of these chapters were just too how much of a pompous narcissistic character Luzhin is.

YOU DID DO IT.

     

In this part of the novel Raskolnikov is getting closer and closer to revealing he is the murderer. Razumikin already knows it is Raskolnikov after the stare down they had at the end of chapter 3. Raskolnikov then goes to the police station, after meeting with sonya, to acquire his watch from the magistrate. Raskolnikov loses it a bit and pretty much confessed, but before he could go outright and say “I SHANKED HER” some random came in and confessed to the murders.

Nietzsche was a german philosopher that was involved with three major philosophies, Existentialism, nihilism, and post-modernism. Existentialism basically says a person’s action define the meaning of life. Nihilism says that any morality that exists was manmade. Post-modernism says strongly relates to critical theory.  Now when I read the three wiki articles I realized I can’t read one without reading all three. Although I read the articles I was able to connect nihilism and existentialism to Raskolnikov. Such as Raskolnikov believing that he can do as he pleases because he is an ubermensch or at least he wanted to test if he was. He also tries to find reasons to go through with the murder and voids all morality to do so. To be honest I just thought Raskolnikov was just crazy but he is following a philosophy and testing it.