In the novel, Heart of Darkness, the Europeans witness a life unlike any they have ever seen. ... He sees how the Natives are treated, he views the Europeans acts of futility, and this is just a glimpse of things he has to face in his future travels. ... Marlow's trip from Europe to the outer then the central station already tests his capacity to differentiate between good and evil. ... Marlow is saying this to emphasize that the Europeans are sane and look upon the Natives as savage people yet who is he to judge who is truly sane and who is not? ... The jungle entices the Europeans...

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Along the way up the river, the structure of European civilisation is slowly dissolved as Marlow penetrates deeper towards his destination. ... It becomes apparent to Marlow that kurtz, because of being so far from civilisation for so long and being stripped of European restraints and morals, looked into his unsheathed heart, and was overcame with evil. ... He respected the natives, not finding them to be inhuman like many other Europeans in Africa at the time. ... Marlow unlike Kurtz has nothing to say as he nears death. ...

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Africa seems to hold to the reputation it is given by the mad assortment of characters that Marlow met in Europe, and all manners of nonsensical, feverish dramas play themselves out before his eyes. ... Kurtz, like Marlow, came to Africa with the ideals of an ever-reforming Europe swimming in his head, but unlike Marlow, who craved adventure, Kurtz came on a noble and righteous quest, intending to recreate each ivory station along the river to become a haven of wisdom for the natives, offering them a better way of life. ...

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"Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad is a short novel published in 1899. "Apocalypse Now" is a 1979 film based on the novel Heart of Darkness by Francis Ford Coppola set during the Vietnam War. Since "Apocalypse now" is a movie that is inspired from Joseph Conrad's novel, when comparing (both proje...

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