Apocalypse Now Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Joseph Conrad once wrote, "the individual consciousness was destined to be in total contradiction to its physical and moral environment" (Conrad-1897); the validity of his statement is reflected in the physiological and psychological changes that the characters in both his Heart of Darkness and Coppola's Apocalypse Now undergo as they travel up their respective rivers, the Congo and the Nung. ... In Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow's great understanding is that existence itself has no moral heart; which is proved b...

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