Europeans refused to recognize the crimes they commited in Africa and shoved the topic into the taboo of discussion. Marlow unamasked the 'man behind the curtain' and found the horrors of European imperalism. When he returns to Europe, the renewed pressures of societies taboos prevents him from openly talking about it with Kurtz's fiance and when she fails to see the truth, his unconcious mind prevents him from relaying the informaiton in an act to prevent condemnation and austricizing himself. His recognatition of how the truth destroys socitey prevents him from telling her his true last words. By hiding the truth however he promotes the illusions that society creates to protect its true motive, profit, from discovery and inhibiting public action and outcry over the crimes committed. Before December of 1941 the majority of the United States public was unaware of the brutal slatering that was occuring in concentration camps spread throughout Germany. If people had known the truth, the United States would have entered the war earlier. An illinformed society is a violent society and a breeding ground for horrible and distructive actions.
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