HOD #5

“They were men enough to face the darkness” (p. 4). The narrator (now Marlow) is saying how you have to be tough to encounter the darkness, the unknown. In the time period when the author wrote this novel women were still not thought capable of many things. Times have changed immensely and women now are known to be able to do just as much as men. However, when Conrad was writing this book in the late 1800’s, this was a common theme, and is shown vividly here.