Marlow encounters two major symbols within the novel: The river and the jungle that both juxtapose each other in multiple ways. Each represent a sense of the unknown in the density of the jungle and the dangerous river. However, the river offers a single path, where as the jungle is unexpected, large, and almost impossible to move through. There is the sense of human threat of tribes within the jungle. This plays in to the ideals regarding the colonization by the British. They offer no choice for the locals and are forced into their way of direction, just like the river. Both the river and the jungle serve a sense of savageness that also relates to the principles of the colonizers.
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