Light and Dark in Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness Essays -- Movie

Light and Dark in Apocalypse flat and Heart of Darkness In Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, Marlow chooses a brighter path than his counterpart in Francis crossbreeding Coppolas Apocalypse Now, Capt. Willard. The two share in the duty of searching for and discovering Kurtz, as well as taking care of his memory, but their beliefs before encountering him place the characters at opposing ends of a theme. These opposing ends are light and dark, representing good and evil. In the opening pages of Heart of Darkness, Marlow begins telling a tale of himself as nothing more(prenominal) than a sailor, who had a taste for adventure and saw the navigation of a river in such a distant and mysterious place as the congo as a chance to find it. Capt. Willard however, had prayed for a mission, and for his sins they gave him one(AP). Marlows disposition at the beginning of this journey is that of a bored young man, trying to consume his time a noble and societally acceptable existence. Capt. W illard is beyond the bounds of normal society as he begins narrating Apocalypse Now from his hotel room in Saigon. He explains When I was here at the warfare I wanted to be there back home. When I was there all I could think of was getting back into the jungle(AP). Willard is out of doors of society but is hanging on slightly by his connection to the Army. This connection is a weak one, because of the nature of war and the fact that in war the laws of normal society are not applicable. Kurtz though, has taken the final step by breaking away from the army he broke from them, and then he broke from himself. Id never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart(AP). Willard doesnt even know if he will oppose Kurtz when he meets him, because he sees Kurtz in himself... ...v099B/fa/n022/a-e-apocalypse-fortmeyer.html created 1994 (accessed 23 Jan. 2000). Heart of Darkness. Dir. Nicolas Roeg. Turner Network Television (TNT) Pictures, 1994. Heart of Darkness Theme/Symbol/Allusion/Foreshadow http//164.116.90.3/public/jarvinen/hod.html (accessed 21 Jan. 2000). Nash, Jay Robert, and Stanley Ralph Ross. Apocalypse Now The Motion Picture Guide. Chicago Cinebooks, 1985. Raskin, Jonah. The Mythology of Imperialism. New York Random, 1971. Urch, Martin. Apocalypse Now A film review by Martin Urch http//us.imdb.com/Reviews/30/3030 created 1994 (accessed 29 Jan. 2000). Virtanen, Panu S. Plot summary of Apocalypse Now http//www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9067/plot.html (accessed 16 Jan. 2000). Watts, Cedric. Conrads Heart of Darkness A Critical and Contextual Discussion. Milan Mursia International, 1977.