... quivered, the eyes stared stonily up hill. They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages (Conrad 30)."" Witnessing this, Marlow walks the line between pity and coldness. The, "law that had come from the sea,"" refers to the British and all that he was there to continue doing. His description of the slaves ... to overlook the flaws of others seems nonexistent. He picks the people that he encounters apart, finding every imperfection and basing his judgments of the individual upon his discoveries. Conrad's reasoning for th...

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