... letting people believe that besides the ivory they were taking out of the jungle, they were, at the same time, bringing light and progress to the jungle. We can ascertain from this painting that Kurtz was well aware of his company's hypocrisies and their many follies. But at some point we lost him to the wild. Conrad even goes as far to call Kurtz a symbol of the modern age. He symbolizes ... what Conrad feels is the decline in moral values in society, or rather the lack of morals when "society" is no longer present to lend a watchful ... eye. Kurtz's last words, "The horror! The horro...

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... expression and human characteristics is what Achebe says contributes to the overflowing amount of racism within Conrad's novella. Human expression, is one of few things that make us different from animals, along with such things as communication and reason. This of course, being that without human expression, the native woman is considered more of a "savage...wild-eyed and magnificent," (p. 255), possibly even "bestial." In an attempt to ... something like that. It is my opinion, that Chinua Achebe searched for things that he felt could be considered racist, and when they were found, he...

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