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· Sinicism to their colonial forces who are going there too. · First time he sees black people: “they had faces like grotesque masks” o He feels that they belong there. · Death pervading everywhere · Death rotting and decay which can be linked to colonialism. o “The thing looked as dead as the carcass of some animal.” · The natives are almost being used as machines and then left to be rotten once not needed anymore. · Marlow’s view are implied rather than overt (open, spoken) · Spoken about like animals. o “Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind wagged to and fro like tails.” · Marlow’s human side o “It was the same kind of ominous voice; but these men could by no stretch of imagination be called enemies.” · A given image that natives have no lives (dehumanised, destroyed) · Colonizers are wasteful and non-efficient which is the contrary of Marlow as he brings a lot of ivory. This could be the fault of their superiors who are very inefficient. · Passion against discrimination o “I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! These were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove men--men, I tell you.” o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Making them dig a hole for no reason: §<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “I avoided a vast artificial hole somebody had been digging on the slope, the purpose of which I found it impossible to divine. It wasn't a quarry or a sandpit, anyhow. It was just a hole.” o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Natives are: “black shapes” ·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Get to know more and more the evils of the colonialism system o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.” ·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Seeing that they are dehumanised as they are dying slowly and he witnesses this horrid image. Also uses repetition, to mention again that they were “not enemies” “They were dying slowly--it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, -- nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom.”