... , is the one who goes mad and dies. Not all of the sentiments that Conrad expresses are negative, necessarily. Achebe refers to Marlow's "bleeding heart" sentiments as well. For instance, when Marlow refers to the dying Africans as "not criminals, they were nothing earthly now - nothing but black shadows ... to black people which his peculiar psychology alone can explain. His own account of his first encounter with a black man is very revealing: A certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti fixed my [Conrad's] conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the huma...

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