In effect, the author uses personification when Marlow realizes that the river not only appeared, "dark," but also, "hopeless," confronting the fact that the obscurity and pure cruelty of the people involved in imperialism accumulated in their once innocent hearts, making their hearts as, "sunken stones," so deeply inside the darkness that it is impossible to fix the damage if imperialism pervades. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate