"I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly." (13)
Marlow realizes that imperialism is not working after seeing the ruined station. He expected the sins of violence, greed and desire to be present in the colonization, but he did not expect this sin to be inefficient. The Company is folly and pretends that it is in control, when really its eyes are too weak to see how terribly their plans are going.
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