People need money to live, and enough to buy the basic goods one needs to survive, but everybody wants more money. More money means an easier life. The more money one has, the more money one wants, as is shown in the story, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence.
At the beginning of this story the family did not have enough money to support their opulent lifestyle. Mr. Lawrence illustrates their situation like this: “Although they lived in style they felt always an anxiety in the house. There was never enough money.” (p. 159) The family scrambles to pay the bills at the end of the month. An unspoken phrase “Whispered” throughout the house, “There must be more money! There must be more money!” (p.160) the whispering said. Even though the family had money, they wanted, they needed, more.
Paul, the child, knew that his family wanted money, and he knew that he was lucky, betting on the horses. Paul became partners with the gardener. He picked the horse, and the gardener placed the bet. Paul had started out with five shillings but his winnings kept adding up. When he had made 10,000 pounds he decided to give his mother 1000 pounds a year for five years. He wanted his winnings to be a secret so a lawyer handled the money. Paul saw the envelope from the lawyer and asked his mother if she had received anything good in the mail. She said “Quite moderately nice” (p. 168) in a cold voice. She liked getting the money, but she wasn’t happy. She wanted more.
The same day, she had a meeting with the lawyer who was handling the money. Paul’s mother demanded the full sum. She received the money and spent it all. The author informs the reader, “There were certain new furnishings, and Paul had a tutor… There were flowers in the winter, and a blossoming of the luxury that Paul’s mother had been used to.” (p. 169) The money ran out and the voices in the house screamed, “Oh-h-h, there must be more money.
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the Nature of Man Heart Darkness essays
The Nature of Man in Heart of Darkness Marlow makes some specific conclusions about the nature of man in Heart of Darkness. He specifically believes that men are evil and inhuman. He gives a few examples of how this is so in the book. Just reading the book and seeing the way humans act towards each other you are able to see that humans are evil. Marlow also mentions Kurtz and the manager and their inhumanity. There is a lot of inhumanity. The people are so inhuman that when they are starving, they would be able to eat the youth. The black man is beaten unmercifully and there is a black man with a bullet in his head. Marlow describes humans being dark, inhuman shapes by the way they act towards each other. ” Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest.” (pg.141) This is the way Marlow sees humans, even though he does not come out and say it in these quotes. Marlow brings up a specific inhuman being which to him is Kurtz. He says that Kurtz has a dark nature to him. ” He could be very terrible. You can’t judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man.”(pg.135) Kurtz is a thief and a murderer. One of the murders he has done was drying black heads on the stakes. Kurtz was also a liar and at the end of the book Marlow ends up lying himself. To Marlow there is a different person who exudes more evil than Kurtz does. The manager is truly a monster. The manager thought that Marlow should have been hanged.”You ought to be hanged”(pg.135) The manager wanted to kill Marlow, after Kurtz’s death and he really didn’t care much about Kurtz’s death either. The only thing that the manager cared about was how to get and keep the ivory. Overall Marlow believes that white men are cruel. They are inhuman and have no respect for others. What led Marlow to believe this was the manager and Kurtz. Through out the book Marlow and Kurtz show how inhuman they are by torturing and murdering other human beings.