Friday, October 10, 2008
Last Words
The exchange with the fiancee struck me. She is very much deceived into thinking that she knew Mr. Kurtz, not only very well, but in fact the only person that knew his true nature. Marlow feels very awkward in this scene because he doesn't want to tell the mourning fiancee that this was not true... it isn't exactly the right thing to tell someone who is mourning- however, he felt torn because she was terribly misinformed. She had no idea of the atrocities that Kurtz committed and his spiral downward into the darkness. I still haven't decided if it was ok that Marlow lied to her about Kurtz's last words... because yes, it calms her mind to make her believe that his last words were her name, because there is no use in upsetting her any further... but I am not sure if it is right to try to cover up what he did and pretend that it never happened.
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I think that the fact that she is still caught up on the fact that Kurtz was this really great man. Everyone around Marlow has always said that he was such a great man. This leaves the reader wondering if kurtz was such a great man or if they were just caught up in his voice just like the natives.
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