o help him overthrow God. Again, the company is playing god. Like the taker culture, the company believes in its own supremacy. With Marlow signature, the Company is trying to enlist as many people as possible to fuel that supremacy and further conquer. Kurtz extensively exemplifies mans desire to be gods. He embodies Europe according to Marlowall Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz. He enters Africa with the ideas of humanizing, improving, instructing the African culture. Yet Kurtz does not conceal his desires like the Company does. Kurtz abandons his initial ideals and achieves exactly the takers dreambeing a god. The Harlequin comments to Marlow, You cant judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man (Conrad 51). The Harlequin implies that Kurtz is beyond man, no longer can he be seen as a man. When the very natives Kurtz has enslaved attack the steamboat further glorifies Kurtz as a god because the natives do not want to see him leave; he is their god. Kurtz becomes the ultimate goal in taker culturethe power of life and death over the world (Quinn 166). He chooses the life and death of the people.The major goal of Ishmaels teaching is to warn that nature will always prevail. Taker culture will eventually wipe itself out. Man owes everything to the laws of nature and the laws of life. If the species around him had not obeyed it, he could not have come into being or survived (Quinn 118). These laws protect the whole community as well each individual. The gods are the only ones who know the ruling system; they can keep the balance. The character in Heart of Darkness, Fresleven reflects the conflict between takers and nature. In the beginning, Marlow learns that a piloting position has become vacant because a native killed the former pilot. Later, Marlow finds his remains. Grass has grown through his bones. The imagery of the earth growing through Freslevens bones evokes the power of nature. Nature will alway...
