What Makes Charlie Marlow Imperialism

The main theme in that novel is imperialism, and the the ability of one man to judge another. The setting was in the Belgian Congo, mainly focuses on the three themes of that time “God, Gold, and Glory”. Charlie Marlow is a character, changed and developed in many ways throughout the novel and his experience in “the new world”. Marlow is a philosophical, and a master storyteller. He is one of the representations of modernism, can be treated as a traditional hero because he is as the story tells, honest, skilful, solid man and a well developed thinker. Nonetheless he was defeated by the actions in his time and the “company”, where he suffers horribly by his memories of brutality to what happened in Africa. Marlow is an intelligent character
Conrad uses the effect of time on the characters to show their inside thoughts, as an example, "All that had been Kurtz's had passed out of my hands: his soul, his body, his station, his plans, his ivory, his career. There remained only his memory and his Intended _ and I wanted to give that up, too, to the past, in a way _ to surrender personally all that remained of him with me to that oblivion which is the last word of our common fate." (50) Kurtz, Marlow’s friend sends him letters about their journey but Marlow was not interested. He does not want those letters with him because he doesn't want to remember what had happened, he wanted to put Kurtz and the entire journey behind him so that he can leave the journey peacefully to the past. Conard also uses the theme good versus evil in Marlow’s dialogue so that he can reveal his development. Marlow being in the darkest place of his life says, "And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth." (8) He declares that London used to be as dark as Africa. Naturally he is comparing a very modernized nation to the dark ages but by dark he meant the brutality and life. Another quote about good and evil could be, "Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a wink. But he must at least be as much of a man as these on the shore .... Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags - rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief." (8) Here Conrad makes Marlow think of principles as nothing more than "pretty rags." which also questions the reader the difference between "beliefs" and "principles". All of these themes are main aspects of and ways that Conrad used in his style to allow the reader to understand the character’s development through his