1. Journey Motif in Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad continuously portrays the theme about the evils and the consequences imperialism brings, either to its victims or even to the perpetrators in his novel The Heart Of Darkness. Marlow, the main character of the novel, shows the readers the truth about the real motives of the Europeans. ...
Apocalypse Now The two texts have very different settings and when viewing Apocalypse Now with the knowledge that it was based on Heart of Darkness, the viewer is in a very pre- determined mind frame. Apocalypse Now is filled with imagery designed to symbolise a state of existence as well as ...
"But we must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army They lie. They lie, and we have to be merciful for those who lie. Those nabobs." These words, spoken by Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now, describe the disgu...