It is the reason for many corruptions, especially in government and personalities. Every character in Heart of Darkness is greedy, meaning they are willing to give up a very human part of themselves to get what they are looking for. Marlow is also subject to greed, but in a different way. He simply sees it “Observing this power that drew Kurtz irreversibly to a primitive, instinctive state of mind, Marlow concludes that he “could not have been more irretrievably lost” (Conrad 279)” (Laura