In the Tree of Life, Max Ernst painted an otherworldly scene populated by bizarre crossbreeds of birds and snakes. As a member of the surrealist movement, Ernst depicted the illogical, private world of dreams and hidden subconscious thoughts. Here he juxtaposes air and sea animals as a representat...

Joseph Conrad writes in his novel The Heart of Darkness, the quote “the mind of a man is capable of anything- because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future (106)”. This quote best describes the relationship between his characters of Marlow and Kurtz. Within this quote, we see h...