first paragraph HOD

Marlow is a man in the novel who has an unweavering stuggle between good and evil, light and dark. He prides himself on being an honest man and hates those who lie, however when an pure woman asks Marlow what her loves last words were he says “your name”. This may be viewed as an act of kindness on Marlow’s part, as if he were attempting to preserve her feelings, however he invents himself as a man who hates lies -- even white ones. Freud similarly expresses this struggle between good and evil with the idea of the id. Marlow’s id is slowly being revealed throughout the course of the novel however his id runs wild when he decides to betray his morals and lie.