In the scene when Marlow is holding a dying Mr. Kurtz…he barely utter the words “the horror…the horror” to Marlow. It is one of the most famous lines in the book is when Mr. Kurtz last words were “the horror...the horror”. But as soon as Marlow heard those words, Marlow just flees. As if he is trying to pretend that she did not hear it. Maybe, Marlow probably think that it that it is Mr. Kurtz madness trying to take over him. It can mean a million things but no one really knows what the answer to it is. I have come up with a thought think that those words mean to Marlow is that he is trying to scare him. He probably knew that Marlow came all this way to see Mr. Kurtz trying to take his job and had said those words to him to try to scare him out of taking position. But another theory is that he is finally realizing of what he had done. Finally seeing what was actually going on in the Congo and he probably try warn Marlow that this is not he wants. I believe that Conrad put that in the scene in trying to get us to think. In order to figure out what Mr. Kurtz was saying, we first must break down what “horror” means itself. Based on that, our interpretation of what it means, is what we think of horror means to us.
-Samantha Pubien
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