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Friday, February 1, 2019

Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse straight         Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a characterisation by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and severalizeed in many ways. By focusing on their endings and on the character of Kurtz, contrasting the meanings of the horror in each media emerges. In the novel the horror reflects Kurtz tragedy of transforming into a remorseless animal whereas in the film the horror has more of a defined meaning, reflecting the war and all the barbaric fighting that is going on.               Conrads Heart of Darkness, deals with the government note of Marlow, a narrator of a journey up the Congo River into the face of Africa, into the jungle, his ultimate destination.  Marlow is commissioned as an tusk agent and is sent to ivory stations along the river. Marlow is told that when he arrives at the  inner station he is to bring back information about Kurtz, the basis of this comparison and contrast in this paper, who is the great ivory agent, and who is said to be sick. As Marlow crop away to the inner station  to the heart of the mighty big river.... resembling an grand snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curve afar over a vast country and its tail preoccupied in the depths of the land (Dorall 303), he hears rumors of Kurtzs unusual carriage of killing the Africans. The behavior fascinates him, especially when he sees it first hand and there it was black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids- a head that seemed to sleep at the top of that pole, and with the shrunken dry lips demonstrate a narrow white line of the teeth, was smiling too, smiling ceaselessly at some endless and jocose dream of that eternal repose(Conrad 57). These heads that Marlow sees are first hand evidence of Kurtzs unusual behavior. The novel ends with Kurtz stepwise engulfing the atrocities of th e other agents in his own immense horror(Dorall 303). At his dying(p) moment, Kurtz utters The Horror The Horror, which for the novel are words reflecting the tragedy of Kurtz, and his break into an animal.               Apocalypse Now is a movie that is similarly structured to the al-Quran but has many different meanings.

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