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A 6 page research paper comparison between Robert Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness and director Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now. The writer contrasts and compares the two works, concluding that while the imagery is similar, Coppola's tale is the darker of the two. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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capable, the darkness that lurks behind the veneer of civilized behavior, he found that a template for this investigation already existed in Joseph Conrads nineteenth century novel Heart of
Darkness. Coppolas film, which documents the horror of the Vietnam War draw is narrative structure directly from Conrads novel of depravity in the jungles of Africa. While both works present
scenarios where individuals lose control of their civilized persona, also in both, society plays a role in this corruption through its demands. Darkness exists at the heart of this web,
and it is up to the protagonists of both works to try to once again find the light of reason. Conrads novel takes place in the nineteenth century Belgian
Congo, and focuses on the character of Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman who has been hired by a European trading company as a captain of one of their steamboats. Marlows
employers want him to travel up river and find another employee named Kurtz, who is believed to be stealing company-owned ivory. Marlows counterpart in Coppolas movie is Captain Benjamin Willard,
who is a military assassin. He is contacted by army officials who send him on a mission upriver to find a renegade Colonel Kurtz. But while Marlows mission is to
bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is striking and indicative of one of the
major difference between the two works. As this suggests, Coppolas narrative and characterization are even darker than that in Conrads original story, and also indicative of the change in setting.
Marlow, in the nineteenth century Congo, is brought face-to-face with the fact that civilized behavior is only a veneer, and beneath it beats a "heart of darkness" that is primitive
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