Ask yourself: How does the blood get in Marlow’s shoes? Is he responsible? What actions does Marlow take throughout the story that might make him a positive or negative character? How does he change after this event?

In other words think about Marlow’s character–the answer to your question has to do with Conrad’s development of Marlow’s character.

Symbols

Fog

The “Whited Sepulchre”

Women

The River

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/heart/themes.html

Study Guides:

These links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions.

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/heartofdarkness/

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-4.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/heart/

http://www.novelguide.com/heartofdarkness/

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmHeartDarkness02.asp

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/heartdk02.asp

http://summarycentral.tripod.com/heartofdarkness.htm