        Heart of Darkness, a apologue by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and contrasted in many ways. By focusing on their endings and on the constitution of Kurtz, contrasting the meanings of the horror in each media emerges. In the novel the horror reflects Kurtz tragedy of transforming into a ruthless animal whereas in the film the horror has more of a definite meaning, reflecting the warfare and all the barbaric fighting that is going on.
Conrads Heart of Darkness, deals with the throw forth of Marlow, a narrator of a journey up the congo River into the heart of Africa, into the jungle, his ultimate destination. Marlow is commissioned as an ivory doer and is sent to ivory stations along the river. Marlow is told that when he arrives at the inner station he is to bring back training about Kurtz, the basis of this comparison and contrast in this paper, who is the striking ivory agent, and who is said to be sick. As Marlow proceeds away to the inner station to the heart of the mighty big river....
resembling an coarse snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at consist curving afar over a vast nation and its tail lost in the depths of the land (Dorall 303), he hears rumors of Kurtzs unusual expression of killing the Africans. The behavior fascinates him, especially when he sees it first knock over: and there it was black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids- a head that seemed to sleep at the top of that pole, and with the shrunken dry lips showing a peg down white line of the teeth, was smiling too, smiling continuously at some endless and jocose dream of that eternal slumber(Conrad 57). These heads that Marlow sees...
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