Part 3, final scene
The last word he pronounced was—your name.' Marlow's lie, after insisting earlier that he 'hate, detest, and can't bear a lie.Read in Books4Free →
The Intended and Marlow's Lie
From Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Marlow's visit to Kurtz's Intended in the 'sepulchral city,' where he lies about Kurtz's last words to protect her illusions — the novel's culminating moral compromise.
Part 1
'You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie... There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.' Sets up the irony of the final lie.
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