As Marlow travels deeper into the immoral, bestial realm of the African jungle, his admiration for the corrupted Kurtz and the manifestation of greed and immorality clash with Marlow's ethics. Despite the horrific lifestyle that Kurtz lives to satisfy his megalomaniac needs, Marlow, the only character who appears to have a sense of morality, praises him for his success and portrays him as Europe's pride. Hence, as Frederick Karl interprets, Marlow would wish to see a sense of morality manifest in Kurtz's last words,"Kurtz has reviewed his life with all its horror and in some dying part of him has repented; Marlow hears the words as a victory of moral sensibility over a life of brutality"(Psychoanalytic 130). Much more of a desire than an observation, Marlow's perspective reveal he strongly holds on to his ethics in the immorally corrupt, primal world of the African jungle and wishes to see those qualities in the man he admires. Yet, Marlow surprisingly ignores
(Personal transformation into...)
(second quote: Lie to K's Intended
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