Karl

One of the most interesting aspects of this article to me is the fact that both Marlow and Kurtz penetrate the darkness and darkness occurs when you are sleeping when your unconscious takes over.  This allows you to do things that you wouldn't have ever imagined doing, as your secret desires come out.  We see this true with Marlow as he is a very moral and rational man as seen through his analysis of the romans and the British connecting that too the british and the congo.  However when Marlow actually goes into the darkness, we see that he idealizes such a brute and a manic in Kurtz.  What Kurtz is, his personality and his persona is something that Marlow doesn't have on the exterior but what is unconscious is.  So when Marlow goes into the darkness, we see his idealization for Kurtz shown because that is his what he keeps in his unconscious and is something when he comes out of the darkness, he goes back to reality and realizes that Kurtzs wasnt the person he thought, the person he was idealizing.  The question I pose is Kurtz with his last words, reviewing his life, what will Marlows last words be?