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"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. It was very quiet there. At night sometimes the roll of drums behind the curtain of trees would run up the river and remain sustained faintly, as if hovering in the air high over our heads, till the first break of day."

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They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours

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"Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place -- and whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say."

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Why did Marlow's tone when describing Mr. Kurtz become suddenly negative and critical, which differs from earlier in the story when he would speak of him with anticipation? Why the sudden shift in tone?

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"I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil: the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devil—I don't know which".

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Is Kurtz already dead or is he just on his deathbed?

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"Long afterwards the news came that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals." - When Marlow says "less valuable animals", who is he referring to? Why does he refer to them as less valuable animals?

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"The approach to this Kurtz grubbing for ivory in the wretched bush was beset by as many dangers as though he had been an enchanted princess sleeping in a fabulous castle. " - I feel like the choice of words in this sentence alone completely shifts. Its like the text has been such a hard read, and then " as though he had been an enchanted princess in a fabulous castle" sounds so simplistic and modern ( does this make sense?)

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What was stopping the cannibals from eating the white people?

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What is the deal with the timeline in this story? Marlow was able to perfectly describe Kurtz and his mannerisms before even seeing him, as if he was already with Kurtz.

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"...I worried about his deficiencies, and thus a subtle bond had been created, of which I only became when it was broken. And the intimate profundity of that look he gave me when he received his hurt remains to this day in my memory--like a claim of distant kinship affirmed in a supreme moment."

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As the helmsman was dying, Marlow told that he was "gripping the spear like something precious, with an air of being afraid that I would try to take it away from him.".  Did the helmsman take relish in his death?  Did he want to die, acting in such a way?  Of course in the environment he lives in I would not be surprised, but this is still unsettling.

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Why do people become so bloodthirsty after entering the wilderness? The man in pink pyjamas, who had nearly fainted when he way the dead helmsman, how dances with glee at the prospect of having murdered a few natives. Prior to this, the fat man that Marlow was traveling with in part 1 was anxious that one of the natives be killed after his carriers abandoned him in the bush. And of course the event of the murder of the steamboat captain at the beginning of the book. Even Mr. Kurtz says "'Exterminate all the brutes!'" It's sickening.

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Marlow throws the body of the Helmsman overboard, likely to protect it from being fought over by the cannibals onboard the ship. He laters states that he misses the Helmsman, even questioning if finding Kurtz would be worth the loss of Marlow's late friend. Why Does Marlow feel this way towards the Helmsman, especially after stating during his introduction that Marlow didn't much care for him? Just as an additional thing,  Mr. Kurtz mentioned that only two people die in the book, and that both are important in some way. So why was the death of the Helmsman important to the overall story of Heart of Darkness?