Light and Dark Imagery

People, who need to illustrate things in literature so that others will comprehend them more easily, use imagery, as imagery helps to convey sincere meaning. In the novel Heart of Darkness and the movie Apocalypse Now, there is a real contrast among what is light and what is dark. The light and dark contrast shows us easily about the savagery that takes place in the jungle; the darkness of the people and the sight, which …

…the jungle by making the colours and backgrounds dark. Also, they used the imagery to explain the civilization out of the jungle and the absence of civilization in it. They showed this by not making things appear easy and made us be sure that people in the jungle really didn't understand everything that was going on. Finally, Conrad and Coppolla used the imagery to show us the good and the evil in things and people.