... he experienced firsthand the helpless feeling of being colonized. In this way he came to sympathize with the Africans who suffered at the hands of European colonists. "They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing but earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation ... - and as the "grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres-. Conrad believed that the European intrusion would result is disaster for Africa. All through the story he shows the Europeans a little if any better than the African savages' t...

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... transforms to that of the Greek mythology in which the person going to hell must pay the boatman a token for his one way voyage across the sea of the dead. Unlike any person on their way to the mythical hell, Marlow did not reach hell, he nearly brushed upon it and was able to escape. Kurtz's fate was not as fortunate ... can easily get the ivory out and make wealth off of the land which in the future the hope to industrialize. The tide in history is about to turn. The European Kurtz symbolizes the decaying Western civilization for that light can not penetrate the darkness of the Congo....

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... the native drums that are heard sometimes might have "as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country-(p 29). This shows how far he's come from the customary European practice of labeling natives as savages, or even animals, and disparaging their culture. Finally, Marlow arrives at the Central Station where he is forced to stay for several months repairing ... -(p 37). Marlow appears unique amongst the colonials in that, despite the conditions, he works hard to repair his vessel. This is an important factor in him keeping a grip on reality, unlike his fellow whites. He...

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