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Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a
movie by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and contrasted 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 ....
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.... too, smiling
continuously at some endless and jocose dream of that eternal
slumber"(Conrad 57). These heads that Marlow sees are first hand evidence
of Kurtz's unusual behavior. The novel ends with Kurtz "gradually engulfing
the atrocities of the other agents in his own immense horror"(Dorall 303).
At his dying moment, Kurtz utters "The Horror! The Horror!', which for the
novel are words reflecting the tragedy of Kurtz, and his transformation
into an animal.
Apocalypse Now is a movie that is similarly structured to the book
but has many different meanings. The movie ....
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