the horror.

In the first section of reading in the third section of the story, Marlow is on his way back out from the Inner station and back to Europe with Kurtz. Kurtz is still very ill but he does not want to go back to Europe. He likes it in the jungle because he is worshipped as a god. The natives treat him as a god because he speaks to them with authority. His voice, which is talked about throughout the story- Kurtz is a voice- is what makes him look like he is something to worship. He thinks he is in control of the darkness but the darkness is in control of him. He is now even keeping the heads of the ‘rebels’ and putting them on posts to remind himself that he is superior to the natives. When he is dying his final words are ‘The horror, the horror.’ This could be a realization that his life was horrible and all of the horrible things he has done he is now sorry for. And that he has broken away from the darkness in this time before death and has realized what he has done wrong. It also could be that he is sorry that he is dying and cannot stay with the natives that love him and worship him so much. Either way he is still dying and the horror is some sort of realization.