Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

face of Darkness and disclosure Now         Heart of Darkness, a fiction by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and contrasted in many an(prenominal) ways. By focusing on their endings and on the character of Kurtz, contrasting the meanings of the repulsion in each media emerges. In the novel the horror reflects Kurtz catastrophe of transforming into a ruthless animal whereas in the film the horror has more of a definite meaning, reflecting the war and all the barbaric fighting that is going on.               Conrads Heart of Darkness, deals with the account of Marlow, a narrator of a journey up the congou River into the heart of Africa, into the jungle, his ultimate destination.  Marlow is commissioned as an ivory agent and is send to ivory ships along the river. Marlow is told that when he arrives at the  inner station he is to bring back i nformation about Kurtz, the basis of this comparison and contrast in this paper, who is the great ivory agent, and who is said to be sick. As Marlow proceeds away to the inner station  to the heart of the mighty fine-looking river.... resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at hiatus curving afar over a vast country and its rotter lost in the depths of the land (Dorall 303), he hears rumors of Kurtzs unusual behavior of killing the Africans. The behavior fascinates him, especially when he sees it first hand and there it was black, dried, sunken, with unopen eyelids- a head that seemed to sleep at the top of that pole, and with the shrunken run dry lips showing a narrow white line of the teeth, was rapturous too, smiling continuously at some endless and jocose dream of that thoroughgoing(a) slumber(Conrad 57). These heads that Marlow sees are first hand evidence of Kurtzs 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 integrated to the book but has many different meanings.