Biblical Allusion In Joseph Conrad's The Grapes Of Wrath

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A biblical allusion is being made. The whited sepulcher is mentioned in the book of Matthews 23:27. It refers to people who are pure and beautiful on the outside, but on the inside is filled with impurity and uncleanness. This allusion proposes that the Company looks untainted on the outside, but is inwardly corrupt. The Company that Marlow comes across in the novel is not what is expected, it seems like a place for trade without any blemish, however the Company is only after the ivory that supply’s it with