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Kurtz's Last Words

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In Joseph Conrad's short story, "Heart of Darkness," Kurtz's last words are used to emphasize the horrible atrocities that took place in the Congo. In the story, Kurtz dies on his way out of the interior of the Congo. As he dies Marlow states, “He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision – he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: ‘The Horror! The Horror!’” These final words represent that what was being done in the Congo was unspeakable. The methods used by the colonials as well as the treatment of the native people were terrible. As stated in the documentary, the native’s punishment if they did not produce enough ivory, and later, rubber was the cutting off of their hands. They were also beaten and put in irons. An
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