ch Kurtz conveyed with 'the horror', he conveyed with this picture. Marlow learns the essence of naming and understands what it means to 'be yourself'. However, Marlow has encountered two extremes. The European mentality, which is completely opposite to reality, and Kurtz, a man who has found his reality, but it is one of horror and no restraint from any wrongdoing. Marlow was then returning to his home to deal with his former world, however, afterwards he possessed his new understanding. Marlow cannot return to his previous 'European ways' simply because he has been changed by all of the events leading up to and around the Congo with Kurtz and the whole trip. Marlow is repelled from joining Kurtz for several reasons. Kurtz had denied any sort of moral convictions in order to be worshipped as a god. Because of this uncontrollable power, Kurtz lost all sense of restraint and became the savage that he was. Marlow, however, has not lost his sense of morality. It is because of Marlow's rejection of both the Europeans, who Marlow claims are full of "stupid importance" and of Kurtz's inability to establish his own moral code. The first time the reader witnesses Marlow's choice is when he first gets back to Europe. Marlow finds himself resenting the way the Europeans went about their life, "hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other..." He basically thought that their lives were meaningless because of their blindness. Despite this act of judgment, the reader doesn't know exactly where Marlow stands. However, Marlow does something that is the act of affirmation that he has chose the middle of the two extremes. While aboard the Nellie, Marlow tells his comrades that "I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie...simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies..." (Conrad 782) Towards the end of the novel, Marlow is invite...
