Heart Of Darkness

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station, Marlow described them as �ginefficient.�h Under �gthe devotion to efficiency,�h incompetent people were excluded from society. Only efficient people can survive. For example, since Kurtz was the most efficient agent, with regards to producing ivory, his employers respected his achievement and regarded him as an essential person. However, once he fell into disintegration, he was considered no more the than dying natives and thus was treated as if he were dead. He was then buried in the darkness. The symbol of inefficiency was the color green. Marlow illustrated a picture of dying natives, when he said, �g[They were] black shadows of disease and starvation lying confusedly in the greenish gloom�h(20). Another example of inefficiency is shown in the description of the body of Marlow�fs predecessor as �gThe grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones�h(13). Marlow realized the real darkness did not existed in Africa but in Europe, and not in Africans but in ...

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