... more difficult problems that try all aspects of his personality. The first of these is his arrival to Africa, when his psychological self is bombarded by the atrocities that the white man has reaped on the natives: he sees a chain of African slaves, a grove full of African workers who were slowly dying, ransacked villages, and oblivious workers. At these sights, Marlow ... to steer the ship through some dangerous areas. Along the way, Marlow's psyche is again challenged when sees savages along shore, and he realizes that they are humans, unlike his white shipmates. As he explains, "Yes,...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

... no more moral purpose... than burglars breaking into a safe"(61). Conrad also makes it a point to show the pure evil in the colonialists. For example, Marlow is disgusted with the white's use of the adjective criminal' to justify the chaining and collaring of the slaves. When Marlow just arrives he sees the slaves being worked to the bones and only when ... ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you "you so...

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