1. Heart of Darkness: Power
... no more moral purpose... than burglars breaking into a safe"(61). Conrad also makes it a point to show the pure evil in the colonialists. For example, Marlow is disgusted with the white's use of the adjective criminal' to justify the chaining and collaring of the slaves. When Marlow just arrives he sees the slaves being worked to the bones and only when ... ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you "you so...
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