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This 3 page paper discusses the way in which developed nations tell themselves lies in order to justify exploiting the developing world, drawing on examples from the film "Apocalypse Now" and the novella on which it is based, "Heart of Darkness." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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always exploited weaker ones: the Spanish decimated the Indians of the New World in their quest for gold; the British established an Empire that spanned the globe and robbed Indians
of sovereignty; and it can be argued that today, the United States is exploiting the Middle East for oil, using the excuse that it has ousted a brutal dictator and
is "delivering democracy." This paper looks at two types of exploitation: the "Company" in "Heart of Darkness" and the lies in "Apocalypse Now." Discussion "Apocalypse Now" is based on "Heart
of Darkness," and looking at the two of them its startling to see just how closely the movie follows the book. In both cases, the renegade Kurtz has gone upriver,
and is being tracked by a young man; in the Conrad novella, the young man is Marlowe; in the film, its Willard, but in both cases these characters undergo a
tremendous change as a result of their encounter with the jungle, and their search for Kurtz. Although Kurtz is the putative reason for the mens missions, and assumes the proportions
of a mythic figure, in reality we become more interested in what happens to the men who are tracking him than in Kurtz himself. This is interesting, since he has
become a renegade, a murderer, and set himself up as a sort of king over the natives of the region. Conrad makes the exploitation of the natives explicit in his
story when he describes black Company workers who are dying: "And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die ... They were not enemies, they
were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now ... Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on
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