More questions/passages/ideas to chew on...
* Toward the end of the work, Marlow is discussing Kurtz with the manager, who dismisses Kurtz’s madness as the result of an “unsound method.” Marlow counters with “No method at all.” In other passages of the work, Marlow discusses his method—or the need for one. What does he mean by this? What quality does he feel he has that Kurtz lacks?
* A passage to consider, page 74: "But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude—and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core…”
* And on page 75: "I seemed at one bound to have been transported into some lightless region of subtle horrors, where pure, uncomplicated savagery was a positive relief, being something that had a right to exist—obviously—in the sunshine."
Re-read the famous passage, where Kurtz, ill and nearly insensible, cries out “the horror! the horror!” What does Marlowe believe he has “seen” to provoke this outcry, and has he seen it himself?
Related to the above, why does Marlow lie about Kurtz’s last words to his fiancée? This passage seems to relate to an earlier statement Marlow made about women…what is he protecting here?
Re-read the famous passage, where Kurtz, ill and nearly insensible, cries out “the horror! the horror!” What does Marlowe believe he has “seen” to provoke this outcry, and has he seen it himself?
Related to the above, why does Marlow lie about Kurtz’s last words to his fiancée? This passage seems to relate to an earlier statement Marlow made about women…what is he protecting here?
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