HOD+Fede's+Notes+pg.+81-83

Kurtz gets his power from his methodology. he uses the natives superstition and beliefs against them to control them. he is also portrayed as one of the natives in the line, //"He rose, unsteady, long, pale, indistinct, like a vapour exhaled by the earth, and swayed slightly. misty and silent before me; while at my back the fires loomed between the trees, and the murmur of many voices issued from the forest."// Physically, Kurtz is weak it is his intelligence and metal strength that makes him what he is. Anything that has to do with Kurtz seems glorified. His mistress is set apart from the other natives who are portrayed as part of the background.

On page 82, Kurtz realizes that his methods are beginning to fail and Marlow acts very practical. //""I had immense plans," he muttered irresolutely. "Yes," said I, "but if you try to shout ill smash your head"".// Kurtz was driven by power which is symbolized by the ivory. //"He had kicked himself loose of the earth........He was alone and I before him did not know whether i stood on the ground or floated in the air."// Marlow has been deeply influenced by Kurtz already. Kurtz aspirations for power and ivory had made him a sort of superior being which in the quote above reflects the metaphorical idea that he was free of typical regulations (ethical...etc)

//"If anybody had ever struggled with a soul, I am the man."// Marlow addresses the darkness of man's soul and realizes the things that he has and is experiencing are at the heart of the darkness of man's soul. //"Believe me or not, his intelligence was perfectly clear--concentrated, it is true, upon himself with horrible intensity".// This is essentially what all men do. //"his soul was mad"

"No eloquence could have been so withering to one's belief in mankind as his final burst of sincerity. He struggled with himself too." "I had carried half a ton on my back......he was not much heavier than a child."// Kurtz was heavy in the sense that he had done many horrible things and they weighed heavy on his conscience. This is the weight that Marlow was referring to as he later confirms that in reality he was not much heavier than a child.