HOD #24

“But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time” (p.69). To me a “plaything of Time” would be something or someone who goes along with their life, letting time consume them. Marlow visits Kurtz’s Intended who gives a great impression on Marlow. He felt, just as she did, that Kurtz had died only the day before. To him, she is not someone who easily moves on, but dwells in the past. Conrad connotes that time can consume people. Many people are overwhelmed by the nature of time, a very erratic topic. The author might want the world to understand time better, and the mysterious things it can do.