All their meager breasts painted together, the violently dilated nostril quivered, the eyes stared stonily up hill. They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages (Conrad 30)."" Witnessing this, Marlow walks the line between pity and coldness. The, "law that had come from the sea,"" refers to the British and all that he was there to continue doing. His description of the slaves and their movements causes one to feel that he cares for them. However, after his understanding description he refers to them as savages. Marlow's heart of darkness is strong. Fueled by his ever-burning desire to push on and achieve. He is not easily swayed from his quest and pushes any negative feelings about what he is there to do quickly from his mind.
Marlow is portrayed as a thinker. Someone who sees a situation and turns it over and over in his mind, allowing his heart of darkness touch all that he sees may it be for only a brief moment. The constant wonderment that Marlow lives in is his way of dealing with the drama of everything he sees. If he were to see the tortured slaves and not stop for a moment and think about the things that they are thinking the evil inside of him would slowly creep over him and cause him to be a very unpleasant man to be around. Due to the fact that he allows the world around him in and doesn't let it slip away, he can be looked upon as a decent individual who can be thought to have a strong set of morals.
The description of every person that Marlow encounters also speaks of the heart of darkness that the earth shares. He paints pictures of each individual giving one a look into the soul of the seemingly meaningless and causing one to grow from his experience. .
His encounter with the station's accountant while he was waiting for the rivets to repair his ship shows how cold the accountant is. "When you see Mr.
