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An 11 page paper which compares and
contrasts the novel “The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad and the film version of
the same name, directed by and produced in 1994. Bibliography lists 5 additional
sources.
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11 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAhrt3.rtf
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analyzed. It is often a disturbing story as well as an enlightening story of the condition of man. Most people commonly associate "Apocalypse Now" with this book, being that it
was a film based on Conrads novel but placed during the Vietnam War. However, another film, titled "Heart of Darkness" and less known than "Apocalypse Now," was directed by Nicholas
Roeg in 1994. In the following paper we examine many of the elements of Conrads story as seen in the film and the novel. The elements discussed and analyzed are
theme, character and characterization, point of view (which includes film direction), and setting. Theme One of the most potent themes within Conrads book is that of colonialism as it
involved the ideals of a supposedly superior race, the race of white men. In Conrads story we see how the native people are essentially destroyed through the colonial peoples assumption
that they are better than the natives in every possible way. They infiltrate the people and their lifestyles, inflicting their own ideals and customs on the people in a very
oppressive manner. In essence, the whites overtake the natives, leaving them helpless and hopeless in the face of such oppression, as is seen in the following excerpt from Conrads book:
"Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced within the dim light, in all the attitudes of
pain, abandonment, and despair. Another mine on the cliff went off, followed by a slight shudder of the soil under my feet. The work was going on. The work! And
this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were dying slowly it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they
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