Comparative Essay Between Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now

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in combat are forced to bring the evil within themselves out every time they go into battle. The scene in Apocalypse Now where Captain Willard first meets Lt. Colonel Kilgore exhibits the power combat has in bringing out the dark side in humans. The attitude the soldiers have towards their enemy in the scene shows how evil humans can be. Kilgore demonstrates his dark side when he tosses the "death cards" on to the bodies of the dead Vietcong without showing any remorse over the death of fellow humans. The Vietcong were his enemies, but they were no less human. Another example of the movie expressing good an evil is when General Corman says,
"Because there's a conflict in every human heart between
the rational and the irrational, between good and evil.
The good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side
overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature."

This quote explains what General Corman believes is the good and evil in every human and how the good is ...

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code of nature in a sort of "darkness," in that they had not been exposed to the corruption of the civilized world. Some of the natives were "enlightened" to conform to live by the rules of the white men. One such native is described as a, "product of the new forces at work." (p.24 Conrad) This new "enlightened" class of armed natives worked to help the white men enslave their fellow tribesmen by escorting the captive men on work details at gunpoint. In the movie Apocalypse Now light and darkness are also portrayed in the sense that when ever the soldiers were going into an area occupied by the enemy it would be at a time of darkness, this would indicate that the darkness was a sign of ...

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