![]() ![]() She is portrayed as a mature woman and to possess “a mature capacity for fidelity, for belief, for suffering” (p. Marlow visits Kurtz’s partner a year after he returns to Europe. Marlow laments his death, and wonders “how man powers of darkness claimed for his own” (p. 86) Kurtz uses up his last breath to shout before the end of his life. But the long jungle life has deteriorated the state of health of Kurtz, who dies during his journey down the coast. When the story proceeds, Marlow confesses he finally comes across Kurtz. Upon his arrival at the station, he encounters a white man telling him that he will meet Kurtz, a colleague working at the interior station far from the center of the country. The former captain is killed “in a scuffle with natives” (p. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness narrates the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow who is employed by a Belgian company and asked to replace the position of the captain in the recently established Congo Free State. Joseph Conrad (author), Heart of Darkness, Penguin Classics, 2007. ![]()
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