I noticed that there were a lot of references to dreams and nightmares in the novel. On page 40 (in the new edition), Marlow says, "I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation..." Later on in the novel, Marlow says something about having a "choice of nightmares." I am not really sure what he meant by this, whether he was choosing Kurtz above the Company, truth above deception, or whether he meant something completely different.
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I think Marlow is talking about making a statement about the consequences of deception. He describes deception by comparing it to truth. I think that with the first quote he is saying that the truth is something that can not occur more than once. It is only an illusion. When he is talking about "a choice of nightmares" I think he saying that you have to pick one lie over the other. Nothing you find will be genuinely good. If you only seek the truth you will find nothing. You must choose the lesser of two evils.
Posted by: Maggie D. | September 30, 2004 at 10:08 PM
I agree with Maggie, I think that Marlow is chosing a lesser evil over another. Whatever he chooses will be bad, just not as bad as the other. And, yeah maybe Marlow was choosing Kurtz over the company because he was less evil than the company. Either way, there was still evilness about.
Posted by: Samantha M. | September 30, 2004 at 10:54 PM
I think Conrad was definetely trying to display a theme of choosing a lesser of two evils in the novel. But, i had a different evaluation of that first quote. i thought that it was more of Conrad trying to tell just how unbelievable Marlow's entire experience was by comparing it to a dream. by stating "no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation", he is trying to say just how impossible it is to describe this unbelievable story.
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