HOD #15

“I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars” (p.23). Marlow had heard so much about Mr. Kurtz that he started to doubt his existence. When told the whereabouts of Kurtz, Marlow says that he did not believe it. He uses a reference to Mars, and to the idea that there are no other life forms in Mars, to help describe his thoughts when he had been told this. Conrad does an amazing job throughout this novel comparing parts of his story to more realistic events that the reader can relate to.