... aft, leaning against the mizzenmast. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and, with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol. (69) Also the previous quote shows a honest virtue by being compared to as someone to look up to. Action: The ... be dying soon. Marlow attempts to soothe him, but he is unchanged. That night Kurtz dies. "Suddenly the manager's boy put his insolent black head in the doorway, and said in a tone of scathing contempt: 'Mistah Kurtz -- he dead.'" Feeling the way Marlow did he went to Kurtz's wife to be a...

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• Grade Level: High School

... lust for power. The reality of the colonialism is represented in the form of the District Manager, a real imperialist, taking advantage of his position and also the colony's position. He is corrupt, arrogant and self-centered. An example of his power over other is when he had the black boy thrashed for the burning of a shed. The Manager symbolizes the arrogance of the Europeans as they came face ... to face with native Africans. Marlow realizes the arrogance of the manager and has a certain dislike for him; the only positive quality Marlow ... invaded. This means that he symbolizes Eur...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate