1. Who plays the fool on the hill in Heart of Darkness
... 's final words Marlow realizes that the horror in Kurtz is also in him. Marlow begins to see similarities of evil and corruption in him. He falls into his own human desires. In the song, "the fool on the hill sees the sun going down and the eyes in his head see the world spinning round" (McCartney). The sun going down represents Kurtz dieing because like the sun all the good that was in Kurtz ... is falling down. Marlow learns that all men have the ... same evil and corruption in them and like the world spinning round in Kurtz's eyes ... ...
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