![]() It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: ‘Exterminate all the brutes!’" (2.29). There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot on the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. This was the unbounded power of eloquence - of words - of burning noble words. It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know. From that point he soared and took me with him. ‘By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,’ etc., etc. ![]() ![]() He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, ‘must necessarily appear to them (savages) in the nature of supernatural beings – we approach them with the might as of a deity,’ and so on, and so on. The opening paragraph, however, in the light of later information, strikes me now as ominous. Quote: : "…the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs had intrusted him with the make of a report, for its future guidance…it was a beautiful piece of writing. He is touched by death and honestly grieves at the loss of a man that he considers his partner. Heart of Darkness Shmoop Literature Guide Marlow has not been completely corrupted his compassion for his lost helmsman shows that he still has human emotion, unlike Kurtz.
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