"Kurtz"

(Unrevised blog) (blog stil in process of being edited)
Since I spoke in my last blog about how Kurtz can be viewed as a evil, I want to look more into who Kurtz, the character, is. Specifically in chapter three.

When chapter three begins, we are introduced to a poor ragged man who is entirely devoted to Kurtz. Which Marlow fears to be dangerous. He states that "It came to him, and he accepted it with a sort of eager fatalism. I must say that to me it appeared about the most dangerous thing in every way he had come upon so far." The man even tells Marlow that,"it was dangerous to ask Kurtz too many questions." Marlow fears it to be dangerous because of Kurtz's power and appearance of being indestructible. Kurtz holds a certain power,so that when he speaks everyone drops wha they are doing and listen to him. Such as when he hooked the Russian to every word he said, or got a tribe to go hunting with him by himself. He is powerful, yet he creates a sense of hopelessness,"never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness." He is a person who places a thought of weakness in both humans, and the nature surrounding him. Nature is hurt by this man, and takes "its revenge on him" bye showing him what an evil man he is, "It whispered things to him, things about himself that he didn’t know until he was out there alone."

Kurtz is also a man who will get his way no matter what, which probably explains his cruel power. He threatened the Russian that he would kill him if he would not give him the little piece of ivory he was given as a present. He manipulated people, such as the tribe at the lake, to believe he has human strengths that don't excist, such as controlling lightning and thunder.
Wanting his way seems to be an obsession. He is obssesed, because he is obssesed with obtaining one item : ivory. He has become insane, the reader notes this, and so does Marlow, both audience members of the Russians story, "Why he is mad!". Yet the russian continues to praise Kurtz blindly, because he believes Kurtz is a good man in the end, even though he has tried to kill him several times. The russian, like the natives, worships Kurtz, and thats part of what Kurtz wants, so that he may obtain his central goal.

Kurtz is a man of death. He gets his way by killing people, and getting his way is killing people. He seems to be obssesed with death by the way his house is decorated. Thier are skulls and head on poles surrounding his house. Marlow describes one of them, " It was black and dried and caving in. Its eyelids were closed so it almost looked like it was sleeping on top of the pole. Its shrunken dry lips were slightly open, revealing a narrow white line of teeth. It was smiling, endlessly amused by the dreams of eternal sleep."The dreams of eternal sleep" show death, since death is forever. The head almost seems to represent Kurtz's madness. Its "endlessly amused" by death, just as Kurtz is. He is obssesed with his evil ways, "They [the heads] only showed that Mr. Kurtz had given in to his dark desires and that there was something wrong with him."

My personal views of Kurtz is that he is an almost demonic hypnotising dictator, who has all those, who have fallen, bow down to his feet. My view, I believe is the same view Marlow has. Yet there are those who worship him for his grand views, "on love, justice, conduct of life - or what not." All those who love Kurtz, seem to have come crawling on all fours for his love. They are scared of him, yet they are blind from the fires of his evils. Kurtz is a man, with a dark blank heart.