Title: Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
1Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it
are the issues of life.
2Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
3King Leopold II
- Association Internationale Africaine (1876)
- Congo Free State (1885)
- Force Publique (1890s)
- By 1905, 16k Af. mercenaries led by 350 Euro.
Officers - 1908, under pressure, Leo turned over the Congo
to Belgian Parliament, recd benefits for "his
great sacrifices made for the Congo"
4The Congo in 1890
5Steamers on the Congo
6Leon Rom
- The Butcher of the Congo
- Arrived in 1886 at age 25
- Made District Commissioner of Matadi
- Later headed Force Publique
- Notorious for flower bed
- Permanent gallows
7First International Human Rights Movement
8The chicotte in action
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10Satire in Action
- Mark Twain published pamphlet in 1905
- It pretends to be King Leopold speaking in his
own defense, but is actually a harsh condemnation
of his actions - By This Sign We Prosper
11King Leopold IIs Death, 1909
- Historians estimate 8-10 million perished from
the violence, forced labor, and starvation caused
by Leopold's lust for power and profits - American poet Vachel Lindsay wrote this epitaph
- Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghostBurning in
Hell for his hand-maimed host,Hear how the
demons chuckle and yellCutting his hands off,
down in Hell.
12Outside Issues to Consider
- Or some things of interest that help decode
Conrads Heart of Darkness
13Who are these men?
14Modernity and Modernism
- Technological Change Foreign Culture Acute
Sense of Worlds Lack of Permanence - Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races
in the Struggle for Life (1859) - Karl Marx
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
15Who are these psychologists?
16Sigmund Freud
- 1856-1939
- 1900 The Interpretation of Dreams
- The Instincts Eros and Thanatos
- Structures of the Mind Conscious vs. Unconscious
- Id
- Superego
- Ego
17Karl Jung
- 1875-1961
- 1907 Freuds follower
- 1909 Falls out of favor with Freud
- The Collective Unconscious
- Reservoir of humanitys experiences
- Universal themes and archetypes result of CU
18What is this?
19Dantes Inferno
- The Commedia is divided into 3 parts called
Cántica - Inferno Power of the Father
- Purgatorio Wisdom of the Son
- Paradiso Love of the Holy Spirit
- Each Cántica contains 33 Cantos
- Canto I is the introduction, Canto II is the
entry into the Inferno - 3x33991100102
- Ten is the Perfect Number
- the square of the Trinity plus the Unity of God
- 32110
20The Infernal Layout
- Sins of the Leopardsins of incontinence
- Circle One - Those in limbo
- Circle Two - The lustful
- Circle Three - The gluttonous
- Circle Four - The hoarders
- Circle Five - The wrathful
21The Infernal Layout Continued
- Sins of the Lioncold-blooded sins of malice
- Circle Six - The heretics
- Circle Seven - The violent
- Ring 1. Murderers, robbers, and plunderers
- Ring 2. Suicides and those harmful to the world
- Ring 3. Those harmful against God, nature, and
art, as well as usurers
22The Infernal Layout Continued
- Sins of the She-Wolfcoldest-blooded sins of
bestiality - Circle Eight - The Fraudulent
- Malebolge The Evil Ditches
- Circle Nine Traitors and the Treacherous
Cocytus - Region i Traitors to their kindredCaina
- Region ii Traitors to their countryAntenora
- Region iii Traitors to their guestsPtolomea
- Region iv Traitors to their lordsJudecca
- Center Lucifer
23Realism
- A movement that emerged in mid-nineteenth-century
France. Realist artists represented the subject
matter of everyday life (especially that which up
until then had been considered inappropriate for
depiction) in a realistic mode.
24Jean-Francois MilletThe Gleaners, 1857
25Edouard ManetLe Dejeuner sur lherbe, 1863
26Thomas EakinsThe Gross Clinic, 1875
27Impressionism
- A late nineteenth-century art movement that
sought to capture a fleeting moment by conveying
the illusiveness and impermanence of images and
conditions.
28Capturing a fleeting moment
- Anchored in the Industrial Age, primarily in and
around Paris - Industrialization and Urbanization
- An off-shoot of Realism, which is focused on the
present, Impressionism focused even more intently
on a single moment.
29Claude Monet Soleil levant (Sunrise), 1872
30Claude Monet Saint-Lazare Train Station, 1877
31Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAt the Moulin Rouge,
1892-95
32Vincent Van GoghStarry Night, 1889
(Post-Impressionism)
33Symbolists
- In the late nineteenth-century, a group of
artists and poets who shared a view that the
artist was not an imitator of nature but a
creator who transformed the facts of nature in a
symbol of the inner experience of that fact
34Symbolism
- Rise of Avant-Garde
- Freedom of imagination, expression, and form
- Haunted by imaginary things
- Describes the modern psychic lifethe
expression of intangibles
35Henri RousseauThe Sleeping Gypsy, 1897
36Edvard MunchThe Cry, 1893
- I stopped and leaned against the balustrade,
almost dead with fatigue. Above the blue-black
fjord hung the clouds, red as blood and tongues
of fire. My friends had left me, and alone,
trembling with anguish, I became aware of the
vast, infinite cry of nature. epitaph for The
Cry by E. Munch