Comparison between Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Coppola's Apocalypse Now
Marlow and Willard both journey into the “interior”. What they find and what they experience reflects the concerns of their respective composers.
Compare how Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola use Marlow and Willard to voice their concerns and critique their respective contexts.
In your response ensure that you refer to specific scenes from both texts and consider the techniques used. Include accurate and appropriate quotes.
Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola both provide through different conventions a distinctive insight into the Interior. Joseph Conrad author of “Heart of Darkness”, and Francis Coppola’s appropriation of “Heart of Darkness”, “Apocalypse Now” use their respective protagonists Marlow and Willard placing them in a didactic journey into the unknown interior that proves to be the heart of man, the “Heart of Darkness”. Through the metaphysical journey that both Marlow and Benjamin Willard undergo we are able to understand the views of both Conrad and Coppola that challenged the norm of their time as they depicted to be the senseless destruction, murder and the rape of others land in order for ones profit under the name of Colonisation and War, bringing the “torch” of enlightenment in order to “help” these developing nations. Both composers depict through their protagonists their views of the actions of man as their journey in the real world. With great power comes great corruption and thirst for more as predominantly seen through the relative characters of Kurtz and “Apocalypse Now’s” Bill Kilgore. Conrad and Coppola both use the winding “river…fascinating – deadly – like a snake." Where the snake is used as a biblical symbol for evil and corruption with likeliness to the snake in the Garden of Eden, as a means of basing their metaphysical journeys through Marlow and Willard as they “penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”.
Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” was published in 1899, and due to its timing it produced a text
Compare how Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola use Marlow and Willard to voice their concerns and critique their respective contexts.
In your response ensure that you refer to specific scenes from both texts and consider the techniques used. Include accurate and appropriate quotes.
Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola both provide through different conventions a distinctive insight into the Interior. Joseph Conrad author of “Heart of Darkness”, and Francis Coppola’s appropriation of “Heart of Darkness”, “Apocalypse Now” use their respective protagonists Marlow and Willard placing them in a didactic journey into the unknown interior that proves to be the heart of man, the “Heart of Darkness”. Through the metaphysical journey that both Marlow and Benjamin Willard undergo we are able to understand the views of both Conrad and Coppola that challenged the norm of their time as they depicted to be the senseless destruction, murder and the rape of others land in order for ones profit under the name of Colonisation and War, bringing the “torch” of enlightenment in order to “help” these developing nations. Both composers depict through their protagonists their views of the actions of man as their journey in the real world. With great power comes great corruption and thirst for more as predominantly seen through the relative characters of Kurtz and “Apocalypse Now’s” Bill Kilgore. Conrad and Coppola both use the winding “river…fascinating – deadly – like a snake." Where the snake is used as a biblical symbol for evil and corruption with likeliness to the snake in the Garden of Eden, as a means of basing their metaphysical journeys through Marlow and Willard as they “penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”.
Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” was published in 1899, and due to its timing it produced a text