...not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, — nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish...nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face near my hand. The black bones reclined at full...

...not enemies, they were not criminals, they were "toothing earthly now,—nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish...away and rest. These moribund shapes were free as air—and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing...

...brutality, but of the blindness to their needs of an alien and more powerful order; they have been "brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts" by the rationality of a capitalist order based on legal agreements and chronometric time, an order...

...not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now — nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish...inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest. The kind of liberalism espoused here by Marlow/Conrad touched all the best minds of the age in England,...

...exploitation stress the horror inspired by the nightmare he portrays. The men dying in the shade had been "Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all...uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food" (66). This information is part of that discourse which at times emerges in Marlow's exchanges with...

...nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. . . . [TJhey sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed...moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. . . . One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner:...

...not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish...nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face near my hand. The black bones reclined at full...

...the 'grove of death' Marlow begins to understand the effects of being wrenched out of one's tribe: 'Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all...inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest' (HD 10). We see here that the theme of people as products of culture is not limited to the Europeans....

..."all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair" in Heart of Darkness, Africans who have been "brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts" to build the railway (55). What I am trying to get at here is not that King Solomons Mines interrogates...

...labor are cast aside to the periphery as inutile and thus inhuman. Marlow says of the native men that "lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and then were allowed to crawl away and rest" (35). Marlow then fixates upon a minute detail that strikes...