lieshod Marlow’s Lie in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness Essays

Marlows Lie in Heart of Darkness passim the Heart of Darkness scenes, we get several glimpses of Marlows particular attitudes towards women, that they are creatures that be intimate in a world of their own, and that there had never been anything like it, and never can be (Longman, p. 2199). Women are able to create and see the peach tree in life, something that is harder for men to do, roughened by hard work and misfortunes. Marlow in addition states, this time to his audience aboard the Nellie, We must help them to stay in that beautiful world of their own, lest ours gets worse (Longman, p. 2225). By this he means evidently that part of what draws men to women is their capacity for beauty, to preserve and keep the finer things in life, which men can draw upon to enlighten them and give a whiz of peace to their existence. This sense of needing to preserve the beliefs and beauty of the Intended is why Marlow lies to her in the end. He abhors lies, his own beliefs that there i s a taint of death, a timber of mortality in lies... (Longman, p. 2210) is what leads to the d...