(Click the character infographic to download.) Marlow is a British seaman whose obsession with Africa brings him into the interior on the Company's steamboat.Marlow and KurtzThe way Marlow obsesses...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Mr. Kurtz is a star agent of the Company who works in true ivory country, deep in the interior of Africa. Also, he goes crazy and dies. Will the Real...

The manager is a mediocre Company employee who lives and works at the Central Station. We're thinking that he works at the "central" station because he's average and commonplace (you know, central)...

The brickmaker is another rather useless worker in the crew at Central Station, even though you'd think that, with a name like "brickmaker," he'd actually be up to something useful. Marlow notes "T...

The harlequin is a Russian man who helps Kurtz and is considered his "disciple." He dresses in colorful patched clothing, which earns him his nickname of—yes, you got it—the harlequin:His cloth...

The Intended is Kurtz's fiancée who stays snug in Belgium (probably eating delicious Belgian waffles and French fries with mayonnaise, hmm, is it lunch time yet?) while Kurtz sails off to gather i...