Instead of going up, I turned and descended to the left. My idea was to let that chain-gang get out of sight before I climbed the hill. You know I am not particularly tender; I've had to strike and to fend off. I've had to resist and to attack sometimes——that's only one way of resisting——without counting the exact cost, according to the demands of such sort of life as I had blundered into. I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! these were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove men——men, I tell you. (p. 25)

However, as Marlow traverses further up the river Congo, one can see that he himself is becoming corrupt. Showing compassion for the enslaved Africans at the beginning of the book turns into dehumanizing them as his journey progresses. Just below the inner station, Marlow makes dehumanizing remarks about the ship’s African helmsman:

Poor fool! If he had only left that shutter alone. He had no restraint, no restraint——just like Kurtz——a tree swayed by the wind. As soo

Marlow immediately notices pointless work as soon as he arrives at the congo:

and even after having spent sometime in the Congo, Marlow observes the station yard at the central station and notices a group of workers doing pointless labor, suggesting that they are lost:

n as I had put on a dry pair of slippers, I dragged him out, after first jerking the spear out of his side, which operation I confess I performed with my eyes shut tight. His heels leaped together over the little door-step; his shoulders were pressed to my breast; I hugged him from behind desperately. Oh! he was heavy, heavy; heavier than any man on earth, I should imagine. Then without more ado I tipped him overboard. The current snatched him as though he had been a wisp of grass, and I saw the body roll over twice before I lost sight of it for ever. (p.86)

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