Heart of Darkness vs 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 …

…and altered by this encounter. I thoroughly enjoyed this article. I agree with many of the points Linda Costanzo Cahir puts forth. Both Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now follow a similar plot, but the stories are truly different. Both stories show several similarities such as the plot, the “recording eye,” and the audience. Both writers had the same theme and meaning in mind, but their structure and technique was what made the stories different.