Final Heart of Darkness Character Study

Kurtz

Last words before deat: “The Horror, The Horror!“

Quote from his papers: "Exterminate all the brutes!"

More Examples:

Marlow says that “He had something to say. He said it.“

“I had immense plans“

Quiz quote: "Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a centre for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing"

The Intended

Marlow says that: "She came forward, all in black, with a pale head, floating towards me in the dusk. She was in mourning." and “I noticed she was not very young—I mean not girlish. She had a mature capacity for fidelity, for belief, for suffering. The room seemed to have grown darker, as if all the sad light of the cloudy evening had taken refuge on her forehead.” and “The last word he pronounced was — your name.”

her personal quotes: “His words, at least, have not died.“

“What a loss to me — to us! To the world.“

“I want—I want—something—something—to— to live with.”

Chief Accountant

Marlow says that: “His appearance was certainly that of a hairdresser’s dummy; but in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That’s backbone. His starched collars and got-up shirt-fronts were achievements of character.”

Accountant’s Quotes: "The groans of this sick person... distract my attention. And without that it is extremely difficult to guard against clerical errors in this climate."

“‘In the interior you will no doubt meet Mr. Kurtz… He is a very remarkable person.”

Brickmaker

Marlow Says that: “I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.”

Brickmaker’s quotes: “The same people who sent him specially also recommended you. Oh, don’t say no. I’ve my own eyes to trust.“

“He is a prodigy, he is an emissary of pity and science and progress, and devil knows what else. We want for the guidance of the cause intrusted to us by Europe, so to speak, higher intelligence, wide sympathies, a singleness of purpose.”

Manager’s uncle

Marlow says that: “There’s a touch of death in lies.” and “They were not enemies, they were not criminals, and they were not even uncommon. They were just men… and that is the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman.”

Manager’s uncle’s quotes: “You don’t talk with that man—you listen to him,”

"Ah! he will go far, very far. It’s a mere question of power and time..."

Russian

Marlow says that: “His clothes had been made of some stuff that was brown holland probably, but it was covered with patches all over, with bright patches, blue, red, and yellow—patches on the back, patches on the front, patches on elbows, on knees; coloured binding around his jacket, scarlet edging at the bottom of his trousers; and the sunshine made him look extremely gay and wonderfully neat withal, because you could see how beautifully all this patching had been done”

His quotes: "I tell you, this man has enlarged my mind."

“He made me see things—things.”

“I had to wait in the station for ten days—an eternity. I lived in a hut in the yard, but to be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.”

General Manager

Marlow Says that: “He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness.” and “He had no genius for organizing, for initiative, or for order even. That was evident in such things as the deplorable state of the station.”

His Quotes: "Men who come out here should have no entrails."

“I am not disclosing any trade secrets. In fact, the manager said afterwards that Mr. Kurtz’s methods had ruined the district.”
“He is very low, very low” (referring to kurtz)

“But there is no disguising the fact, Mr. Kurtz has done more harm than good to the Company.”

Fireman

Marlow says that: “He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs.’

Red-haired Pilgrim

Marlow says that: “He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar.’

Mechanic? (Who is this)