Heart of darkness and Apocalyp

When Joseph Conrad wrote “Heart of Darkness” he could not have envisioned director Francis ford Coppola’s version of his work. Coppola transformed a story of a man sent to Africa to find a missing trader to the story of a Vietnam soldier sent to kill a rogue marine. He did so without damaging the spirit of the work as one of the battle within, the battle between good and evil. "Paths, paths everywhere; a …

…toil of a mournful and senseless delusion (Conrad 30)." Both story’s transport us to a world most people dare not enter, a world where there may be no clear morality and nothing is as it seems. We meet the enigmatic Kurtz who’s almost occult like charisma tempts us to join his world of power and fear. The last words Kurts utters are what I take with me of this world “The horror The Horror”.