What does Marlow mean when he says that "there is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies"?

BOOK: Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

He means that there is a hint of death in everything and that there is always a lie

When Marlow made the statement "there is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies" he meant that

Explanation:

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is written as an anonymous' persons's narration of the protagonist's monologue; the unknown narrator retold Marlow's speech describing a period of time he had spent exploring the Congo and the results of an imperialistic governance.

Marlow had four people to entertain with his stories including the unnamed narrator, though the story reaches an innumerable number of persons through the narrator's retelling. This duplicity is germane in figuring out Marlow's motive for lying all through the novel. He claims that the hates lies and equated it to death however he constantly lied to the people in his story.

Furthermore, Marlow occasionally admitted to his audience that he was lying. Marlow's most significant lie, a statement made to Kurtz' intended, is evidence that he believed one has a moral obligation to lie, hence the phrase "flavor of morality"