... 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 remote from the night of first ages "could comprehend- ... (2030). Marlow feels pity for the black people that he meets because they are downtrodden and weak because of the mistreatment they are receiving from the white people. "They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages- (2030). "Brought from all the ... ...

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... , uncertainly. The shrill screaming rose before the beast was like a pain. This beast stumbled into the horseshoe. "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!- The blue white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill. (152) In this quote it shows that the boys act like savages when the fire is not ... act less and less civil and become out of control. For instance, the conch is finally destroyed because the boys are savages and destroy it:---the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist-(181). Now th...

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... 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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