Part 1
'And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth' — applied to Roman Britain, dismantling civilized/savage binaries.
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Part 3
'The horror!' and the 'heart of an immense darkness' in the final lines connect Kurtz's interior darkness to the Thames itself.
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