... confronted with culture clash, wilderness, disease, insanity and death and returns to Europe a changed man. Marlow himself considers this experience as a kind of enlightenment: "It was the farthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience. It seemed somehow to throw a kind of light on everything about me - and into my thoughts. It was sombre enough, too - and pitiful - not extraordinary in any way - not ... of enlightenment and has lost his naiveté. Marlow cannot accept Kurtz's lack of restraint and moral convictions, but he also resents the way the Europeans live...

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... is the door to greater things. The era of fire is the harmonious existence of life and death: death for the destruction it has put upon the lives of people falling in the abyss of torment and the country of Germany in its turmoil. Despite the wrath of fate, there is unearthing. Realization that has the power to stupor the death toll. Each individual recognizes life in its importance and purpose. Humans live life to the fullest of their ... does not mean everything is back to where it began. It is merely the digestion of the beauty of the discovered. The world adapted to the new resource...

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