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A massive typhoon destroyed the sets, halting filming for three months.

Marlow visits the Company’s office in a city resembling Brussels, which he calls a "whited sepulchre"—beautiful on the outside but full of death and hypocrisy. This critiques the "civilizing mission" of European powers as a thin veil for brutal profit extraction. 7. Hearts of Darkness (1)

The story begins on the Thames River, where Marlow reminds his listeners that even England was once one of the "dark places of the earth". This establishes the theme that savagery is not a geographic trait but a potential within all human hearts. A massive typhoon destroyed the sets, halting filming

Both works argue that civilization provides the "restraint" needed to keep inner darkness at bay; without it, as seen with Kurtz, the human psyche can fracture. The story begins on the Thames River, where