... an example of Golding's corrupt soul. SamnEric, represent the common folk. Although in the beginning they are part of the society, when things begin to fall apart they do not hesitate to join up with Jack's hunters. They also represent man's survival instinct, "Memory of their new and ... , Marlow is confronted with a human head "black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids-. The destruction of the illusions that various people had for Kurtz symbolize the absence of those characteristics from the human soul. The descriptions also reinforce the already gloomy circumstances surrounding the jo...

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