/lit/ - Literature

>>19592724
>I don't get it.
Kurtz has every advantage and opportunity afforded to him by his origins and the resources of all of the Europe/British World. He is a great man.
His mission is to get ivory and he does it bloody well. However those who knew him and that he represents the height of European enlightenment/domination absolutely detest that he's such a monster, despite giving him a mission that requires one to be a monster.
Kurtz uses the "primitive" negros and makes them less civilized and less inline with what a high society European would like to see in others.

I think the nut is that everyone, especially those who are great are capable of extreme violence and uncivilised ways and while education and society put layers between civilisation and chaos it's very thin and easily removed if the opportunity affords it.

>>7534576
>Very humanity of black people is called into question
Almost like she didn't understand what Conrad was trying to say.

Dunno about the colors, it's been a while since I read it.
The whole horror thing was about how Kurtz became a monster and achieved unbelievable success compared to other ivory suppliers at the cost of his morality.
imho Marlows lie is morality, he couldn't just tell Miss Kurtz that her late husband was a monster.

I just finished HoD and want more of whatever style of writing this is.