Throughout his narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Charlie Marlow has a chance to encounter the indigenous peoples of Africa. ... This man demonstrates that the savages might be tamed because "he ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping his feet on the bank" (Conrad 37). ... Marlow describes Africa with references to the banks "rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded by the contorted mangroves that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair" (Conrad 17). ...

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