All Europe

“His mother was half-English, his father was half-French. All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz.” (Conrad 73).

Since Marlow has given much previous evidence as to his dislike of Kurtz, and how horrified he is by him, this passage proves to be another criticism of Europe and its customs, since it has made Kurtz and therefore made destruction and, in the eyes of Marlow, “darkness.”