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The path from power to corruption, the brutality of Colonialism, and insanity as a result of life in a defiled environment are three crucial themes of the text and could each be argued as the main message. Out these three possible readings, the path from power to corruption is the most admissable. The brutalitity of Colonialism is first introduced as Marlow arives Inner Station, and is built upon as he travels to Kurtzs compound.Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effased within the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair. Another mine on the cliff went off, followed by a slight shudder of the soil under my feet. The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. Marlow encounters scenes of tort.ure, cruelty, and slavery, like this one, and a violent picture of the colonial enterprise is shown through the callous mistreatment of the natives and ruthlessness of the colonists. An assertion could be made that because of Conrads vivid discription of the abuse of natives seem to express pity with depictions of their pain, abandonment, and despair. Recurring instances of abused natives Insanity as a result of living in a defiled environment is evident through the Kurtzs irrational actions, which were obviously influenced by his surroundings. The path from power to corruption is apparent through the change in Marlows character as he drifts further up the Congo and begins to despise the natives and everything about his situation, and also by Kurtzs abuse of his power over the natives. ZNDSET2H4h6*DSET2H J4l6*DSUMHDNISTYL  JSTYL45 4455555(              R HASH $.  .  . 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