Marlow symbolizes the positiveness of Imperialism but realizes the evil that the negative Imperialism has caused and decides that it's unnecessary to go through so much evilness. ... This means that he symbolizes Europe towards the end of the imperialism when they began to recognize their actions as evil, disrespectful and harmful. ... He does this by using different characters as different symbols and he expresses his views through Marlow. ... He also makes us think that he believes that in Imperialism, Europe, the oppressor are too arrogant and evil to deal with such people as the na...

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Kurtz resembles the archetypal "evil genius": the highly gifted but ultimately degenerate individual whose fall is the stuff of legend. ... Kurtz can be criticized in the same terms that Heart of Darkness is sometimes criticized: style entirely overrules substance, providing a justification for amorality and evil. ... His perverse honesty leads to his downfall, as his success threatens to expose the evil practices behind European activity in Africa. ...

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The first recognition of this embodiment is the ways in which the Congolese are personified as "a treacherous appeal to the lurking death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart" (Conrad 33) and their faces as the face of a gloomy forest. In these descriptions, the wilderness is placed together with words such as evil and death, despair and gloom, locating it as not only the enemy, but also as a site of death for anyone who enters it. ... They are considered traitorous creatures that are gradually becoming the symbol of darkness and beginning to betray their maste...

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