In the article, ""Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad"'s Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola"'s Apocalypse Now"" Linda Costanzo Cahir compares and contrasts both the novella and the film. Both writers had the same theme and meaning in mind, but their structure and technique was what made the stories different. ... ""Coppola understood the technique and theme, structure and meaning are inseparable entities. ... Both writers had the same theme and meaning in mind, but their structure and technique was what made the stories different....

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This theme is very much reflected by the books" setting, plot structure and characterization, we all have the potential to be evil because evil exists within all of us. ... Civility, in essence, provides the basic structure for good. Through laws, structure, and general order, goodness then, for the most part will be the end product. ... (Wilde 107) Dorian's lifestyle can be paralleled to the Congo in that it is similarly used to represent the absence of restraint and order. ...

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