Heart of Darkness

Well this book is certainly a refresher to read after the guessing game of 1984. In the beginning of the book it seems like a telling of a great tale of how a seaman got his start in exploring the unknown. However a couple pages later it seem s the story turns instead of an exciting adventure into a story of dread and the discovering of one's darkest characteristics and corruption of his soul.
If 1984 was a downer this book just changed the scale of how fast you can depress someone. The tone through out the book is one of dread, as the landscapes are described as dead grasses and savage lands to even the people the main character finds himself meeting. each new character he encounters seems more corrupt then the next. The main character faces all kinds of hardships and misfortune from at first being sent to a place starved, meeting unkind people, even his boat sinks unexpectedly with no hope of its repair. Even the person who pretty much runs the place dies while the main character is with him. Such a spell of bad luck only cause the reader to see how his soul is being corrupted by each passing misfortune.

1984

This book was so interesting. This book presents a world of government control of everything from media to a persons own life. Makes you wonder what kind of person the author was to create such a twisted world. Not even the main character could turn the tide and help create a much need power change and over throw the government. This is the first fiction book I've read where that happened. The author I imagined wrote this book either as an insane person or as a warning for what he thought would happen soon after another wold war, since this book was written after world war II. this book is probably the most scary political take over imagined. While I read this book I could not help to imagine how depressing and frightening it would be to live in a society like this. Though this society seems like a mix between Stalinist Russia, Hitler Germany , and current China and Kora. However if you look at the time period that this book is written in , it is not surprising to see how George Orwell could have imagined such a place.