In Heart of Darkness, the protagonist and narrotor within the narrative, Marlow, .
expresses various opinions towards people that he encounters. This is illustrated in his .
impressions of whites, blacks and of Kurtz. Marlow feels compassion towards the black people .
because of their situation. However, even though he feels pity for them he still views the black .
people as primitive savages rather than as potential equals. .
""It was unearthly, and the men were "No, they were not inhuman. Well, .
you know, that was the worst of it "the suspicion of their not being inhuman. It .
would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid .
faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity "like yours ".
the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. .
Yes, it was 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 .
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 recesses .
of the coast in all legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed .
on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to .
crawl away and rest."" (2030). .
Marlow is fascinated by the native black village people,but at the same this fascination .
and interest of the blacks that he has distresses him. This is because he feels a bond with the .
blacks that he wishes to classify as inhuman and uncivilized savages.
