1. The natives think of Kurtz as a god, but he is really exploiting them to get their ivory. He then goes crazy and degenerates and goes crazy due to his greed and the jungle around him, engulfing him.
2. When Marlow first got to Africa he heard how Africa would "swallow you, chew you and then spit you out".
3. Marlow ignored the injustices of the way the white people were treating the Africans especially in the section of the novel when he saw the Africans dying on the ground with white string around their necks. This white string became a metaphor in that the whites were strangeling Africa and taking everything they could for it and leaving it a dying continent.
   1. This was his first encounter with the hypocracy in Africa
4. Marlow didn't know about the hypocracy until he got to Africa because the people in Europe are ignorant towards it and don't know the truth about the way the Africans are being treated.
5. The Russian also is apart of the hypocrisy of imperialism due to the fact that he seems completely oblivious to all the problems going on besides that Kurtz is crazy. He sees the natives following Kurtz as more of an inconvience.
6. The people in Europe feel that the Africans are a "white man's burden" and must be helped for them but they don't realize that they are really hurting them and they don't know because they aren't seeing it. Also the Europeans are getting a distorted view from the people that are returning from African because even the European travelers that go there really don't understand the way they are living or their culture.
7. Throughout the novel Marlow feels that he is better than all the white men there because he learns from the Africans and tries to help them when really he is degrading them at the same time through different uses of names and terms.