... symbolism the specifics of Marlow's narrative. Marlow abhors colonization. He believes that when Europeans colonize other countries to exploit rather than to civilize, white men commit robbery and murder on "a great scale." His urgent feelings regarding colonization trigger Marlow to remember his trip into Africa. However, ... . Rusted machinery, ill workers, and cluttered unkept grounds greet Marlow at the first station. The native workers are horribly treated while the white characters suffer from disease, biting insects, and staggering heat. Marlow finally leaves the station to begin ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... The city of Brussels itself reminds Marlow of a "whited sepulchre-(p 14) which in the Bible, in Matthew's Gospel, is described as a pure and white fazade hiding death and decay. Then there's the story of Marlow's predecessor Fresleven, a gentle, quiet man who goes on a wild rampage, and the ... , there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in...

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• Grade Level: High School