Marllow's Views Of American Imperialism

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 for the Company, whom Marlow sees essentially just as slaves and even compares them to “faithless pilgrims. He sees that if they are pilgrims, to some sort of religion, then it is the ivory trade. While they remain faithless to the religions cause, they still follow their commitments to the ivory out of pure economic necessity. The deprived workers see the Company and the ivory trade as the only way of escape from downright economic depravity …show more content…
Marlow refers to the greed and immoral actions of the company blowing through some corpse. This “corpse” is exemplified by the dying African people and their elephants as well. The people are maltreated because of the company’s willingness to cut corners and not caring for their workers well being. They are forced to work long hours in inhospitable conditions often resulting in their deaths. The “corpse” that Marlow speaks of is also exemplified in the Elephants themselves. The Company not only mistreats their workers but perverts their homeland by taking their animals and killing them painfully and without regard for the consequences. The disregard of the Company led to a massive decrease in the elephant population which has largely remained to this day. They money and power that Company is able to acclimate only increases their lust for more, blinding their spiritual compass and ability to make Godly …show more content…
One of these irrevocable rights is a form of order and the carrying out of the law in some way or another. The villager who is beaten is not given an opportunity under a law of any sort. He instead, is beaten for a crime that may or may not have been his doing, which makes him and inadvertently the community suffer from the Company’s ignorance towards the law. Not only is he beaten for his troubles, but because of the callous and lackadaisical execution of the law by the Company, he is forced from the village and society as a whole. This causes him to not only be apart of a devolved society but also be further devolved to the point of a isolated and primitive human existence. If any society considers itself moral, it is be able to rise above man’s primitive aspects and form a community that is safe for all to