- “I had no idea of the conditions, he said: these heads were the heads of rebels … Those rebellious heads looked very subdued to me on their sticks.” (p. 103)
Conrad shows Marlow's understanding of injustice as he appears shocked and outraged upon hearing the label the heads on the sticks are given. He finds it extremely unfair for the native Africans to posses such a title as "rebels," as they have not done a single thing to harm the white men. The natives haven’t had nearly enough independence to commit such acts that would rightly earn them that cruel name. Marlow then makes a sarcastic remark saying these supposedly “rebellious creatures” look “very subdued on their sticks.”
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