My worthy opponents, fellow teammates and honorable judge. We are here today to prove that the environment that you live in does not effect your state of mind, rather people as a whole already have evil in them and it is a matter of time before it comes out. The Russian, who is young and always safe no matter what the situation he may be faced with, is the center of my discussion. The Russian …showed first 75 words of 389 total…

…showed last 75 words of 389 total…entered the book until it ended, therefore if he could follow someone like Kurtz, who hung heads around the door to his room, then he must have already had thoughts of evil in him. If not he would have stayed with Marlow who did not show many signs of evil to begin with. All of this is proof that the environment does not effect the mind state or influence actions that were evil in nature.