#2 “They wandered here and there with their absurd long staves in their hands, like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence. The word ‘ivory’ rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse” -(Page 35)
Does the accumulation of money and power inevitably lead to a loss of spirituality?
(Explanation of the Issue)
Marlow first utters this quote upon arriving in Central Station for the first time and offers his general feelings about his surroundings. He sees first hand, the immense wealth that the ivory trade brings into the Station that makes his aunt and inversely him, their money. But he also sees the workers …show more content…
Many of the village people reveled in the catastrophe and the trouble it caused the Company and danced as it burned down. Unfortunately, later a villager was accused of starting the fire and beaten senselessly for it. He attempts to recover from this attack over the course of the upcoming days and although he is able to recover physically from his injuries, his standing among society has been almost permanently ruined. Because the village and the Company’s rule is the only societal structure that stands in Africa, the villager is forced into the unknown of the wilderness where his fate remains unsettled. However, the author Joseph Conrad personifies and links nature with “bosom” and that of a mother. This implies that nature and the wilderness are the proper state for the African man and that his ostracizing took place for his own …show more content…
He, according to a certain standard, was not inherently evil but rather a humanitarian with ambition. Kurtz, as described by his peers and his betrothed, is a “generous man” with a “noble heart”. It is not until he is forced into the jungle, Conrad’s symbol for that of darkness and pure evil, that he is corrupted by it. In fact, he is not only corrupted by the jungle and the Company, but his actions are also driven by them. He was driven by the jungles seemingly endless nature with which he was fascinated and his greed and ambition, which had once made him a great man and aspiring philanthropist had led him to delusion that he may be able to “rule” the jungle and conquer it all. Kurtz is not inherently evil but the primitive nature of the African jungle and the Company’s avarice led him down a wicked
Does the accumulation of money and power inevitably lead to a loss of spirituality?
(Explanation of the Issue)
Marlow first utters this quote upon arriving in Central Station for the first time and offers his general feelings about his surroundings. He sees first hand, the immense wealth that the ivory trade brings into the Station that makes his aunt and inversely him, their money. But he also sees the workers …show more content…
Many of the village people reveled in the catastrophe and the trouble it caused the Company and danced as it burned down. Unfortunately, later a villager was accused of starting the fire and beaten senselessly for it. He attempts to recover from this attack over the course of the upcoming days and although he is able to recover physically from his injuries, his standing among society has been almost permanently ruined. Because the village and the Company’s rule is the only societal structure that stands in Africa, the villager is forced into the unknown of the wilderness where his fate remains unsettled. However, the author Joseph Conrad personifies and links nature with “bosom” and that of a mother. This implies that nature and the wilderness are the proper state for the African man and that his ostracizing took place for his own …show more content…
He, according to a certain standard, was not inherently evil but rather a humanitarian with ambition. Kurtz, as described by his peers and his betrothed, is a “generous man” with a “noble heart”. It is not until he is forced into the jungle, Conrad’s symbol for that of darkness and pure evil, that he is corrupted by it. In fact, he is not only corrupted by the jungle and the Company, but his actions are also driven by them. He was driven by the jungles seemingly endless nature with which he was fascinated and his greed and ambition, which had once made him a great man and aspiring philanthropist had led him to delusion that he may be able to “rule” the jungle and conquer it all. Kurtz is not inherently evil but the primitive nature of the African jungle and the Company’s avarice led him down a wicked