“He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, ‘must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings—we approach them with the might as of a deity,’” (50).
Marlow foreshadows the relationship between Mr. Kurtz and the savages living around him when he talks of a paper Kurtz forces him to read. Kurtz explains that due to the level of advance the whites have over the savage natives, they appear to be powerful gods, and the natives are open-minded enough to believe that they are.
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