Ideas

In Frederick Karl's critic work, he stated on page 124 something that I thought was very interesting. In the last body paragrpahs he says, "... Both he and Conrad penetrated into the darkness, the darkness entered into when people sleep or when their conscious sleep, when they are free to pursue secret wishes, whether in dreams, like Freud's analysands, or in actuality like Kurtz and his followers." This statement can also not only be pertained to Kurtz but Marlow as well.  Marlow would dream about Kurtz and have this obssesion with being loyal to him but before that have an obssesion of finding him. Because he would imagine it, that powerfullness caused him to actually complete his "mission" He is going after his "secret wishes". Also at the end of the novel when Marlow lies to Kurtz's intended shows that he is also continuing his wishes although he is being a hypocrite. He felt as though it was his responsibility to be loyal to Kurtz and that is exactly what Marlow did until the very end.