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Marlow feels terror from - Answer-awareness that kurtz was not a man with whom he
can reason, can only appeal to his sense of himself ans power -- he had broken free/
kicked himself loose of the earth; no standards
sailing back to europe - Answer-go back twice the speed they came; brown current of
river quickly carried them out of heart of darkness
the jungle watched the boat as - Answer-fragment of another world, carrying change,
conquest, trade, massacres, and blessings. '
kurtz says to close the shutter - Answer-cries at the wilderness he could no longer see ,
he can't bear to look at it
kurtz was such a great man according to marlow because - Answer-when he had
something to say, he said it. he stared at all of life and judged it.
kurtz's cry of despair was - Answer-a victory of some sort a victory of his morals over his
life
kurtz's cousin come to marlow 2 days later and - Answer-determines kurtz is a universal
genius, was a musician, painter, journalist
journalist colleague - Answer-believe kurtz should be in politics, he was an all around
extremist of any party
marlow lies that kurtz's last word was - Answer-the intended's name. couldn't tell her
truth because it was too dark
heart of immense darkness - Answer-marlow sits in buddha pose meditating, here were
too many clouds to see the sea, and the river that led to the ends of the earth looked
somber beneath the overcast sky. It seemed to lead into the heart of an immense
darkness.
"He made me see things-Things!" - Answer-The Russian stayed up talking with Kurtz all
night, and he expanded his ideas, but Marlow sees darkness coming from this. He
would "forget himself amongst these people....forget himself." The Russian is recounting
how he tried to make Kurtz leave and return to civilization. Kurtz would say yes, and
, then he would remain, go off on another ivory hunt, and he would be tempted again by
greed and the savage part of his soul and forget his civilized self.
"I! I! I am a simple man. I have no great thoughts. I want nothing from nobody. How can
you compare me to...." - Answer-The Russian continues in his loyalty to Kurtz, making
excuses about how life treats Kurtz, justifying his savagery (such as the killing of the
rebels and the staking of their heads).
"I'll carry my ideas out yet-I'll show you what can be done. You with your peddling little
notions." - Answer-Kurtz is reacting to being taken away from Africa by people he sees
as having inferior vision. He has just watched his mistress on the banks of the river.
"Because the method is unsound." - Answer-The Manager is referring to Kurtz's method
of obtaining the ivory. He is trying to separate himself from Kurtz's inhumanity, however,
ironically his methods are not better.
"Mr. Kurtz's reputation is safe with me." - Answer-Marlow is asked by the Russian not to
betray all of Kurtz's methods to the Europeans and the Company - to not destroy his
false reputation. Marlow has to make a choice, and chooses tentatively to keep Kurtz's
secrets.
"Oh, he enlarged my mind" - Answer-Again, the Russian trader, this time on his
departure to save himself from death, is remarking on Kurtz's ―brilliance and
remembering poetry they shared. Discuss the symbol of heads.
You will be lost-Utterly lost - Answer-Kurtz has left the boat, crawling to return to the
native camp. Marlow has stopped him and warns him that if he continues, he will be
utterly lost and separated from the civilized bounds of the earth. This is symbolized by
the spiritual man that is standing nearby in the forest.
Do I not? - Answer-The natives are on the banks of the river repeating the shouts of
Kurtz's mistress. Marlow asks Kurtz if he understands this, and this is his reply. He has
a mingled expression of wistfulness and hate and the words are almost torn out of him
by a supernatural power.
"'You can't judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man.'" - Answer-The Harlequin
offers this comment to Marlow about Kurtz.
"But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by
heavens I tell you, it had gone mad." - Answer-Marlow makes this comment as he
reflects on meeting Kurtz alone in the wilderness.
"He was a remarkable man." - Answer-Kurtz is remarkable to Marlow because he can
create something out of the numbing nothingness of the Congo.