Heart_Of_Darkness_And_Apocalypse_Now

Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now In the article, “Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now” Linda Costanzo Cahir compares and contrasts both the novella and the film. Both writers had the same theme and meaning in mind, but their structure and technique was what made the stories different. In both the novel and the film, we see the central character (Marlow or Willard) as a man drastically altered by a past experience. Each story begins with the main character explaining how he was appointed to take the journey up the river. Both Marlow and Willard made three unscheduled stops with the crew. The third stop being the “soul-altering confrontation with the mysterious Kurtz” (Cahir 1). Although the plot is the same, the stories are different. Not only in the way they are told, but also in the way the main character endures the excursion. Linda Costanzo Cahir speaks about the “recording eye.” The narrator serves as the “recording eye” in Heart of Darkness. Being invisible only between the teller and listener, the narrator sees what is going on and reports back to the reader. We see what the narrator sees just as we see what a camera sees. story, stories, different, both, same, heart, darkness, cahir, willard, narrator, marlow, made, apocalypse, way, now, characters, audience, told, similar, linda, eye, costanzo, conrad’s, character, camera, ways, two, through, theme, tell, technique, tale, structure, show, sees, recording