“When the sun rose there was a white fog, very warm and clammy, and more blinding than the night” (39).
Here Conrad is playing on the theme of darkness by using fog as a symbol for it. Marlow’s steamboat is trapped in the fog in the middle of the river and he is unable to direct it safely out. After a few hours of laying anchor in the fog, it teases the crew by thinning for a few moments, but not long enough to allow any movement to be made. Conrad shows how life in the Congo has been distorted by Imperialism. The fog also makes it seems as though the land has a mind of its own and is preventing the steamboat from going any farther.
Here Conrad is playing on the theme of darkness by using fog as a symbol for it. Marlow’s steamboat is trapped in the fog in the middle of the river and he is unable to direct it safely out. After a few hours of laying anchor in the fog, it teases the crew by thinning for a few moments, but not long enough to allow any movement to be made. Conrad shows how life in the Congo has been distorted by Imperialism. The fog also makes it seems as though the land has a mind of its own and is preventing the steamboat from going any farther.
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