Charles Marlow is the protagonist of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - who visited the Congo Free States and saw the exploitation of the African natives for the acquisition of ivory. As he arrived, one of his pointed remarks of colonialism, as he saw how the Company's outpost was in a horrendous state, was how the greed of colonialism was like: "the labby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.”
