Heart of Darkness and Coppola’s Essay

Kurtz was the best agent the Company had and so far his journey has resulted in his oppressive and tyrannical demeanour and he unleashed his maddened soul unto his surroundings. Kurtz obviously pass much time dwelling on thoughts and attempts to journey into his soul. The fact that he once travelled down the river with his ivory, and yet turned back after miles of change of location depicts his indecisive nature. Marlow realises this, and sees how torn apart the man really is. He realises that Kurtzs solitude in the wilderness had allowed him to segregate and isolate everything he had known.With nothing to wangle him and no voices of reason, his journey into his soul in the end, distorted it into a malicious, gluttonous thing, whereby its greed and passions were to become insatiable, But his soul was mad. Being al unmatchable in the wilderness, it had looked inwardly itself it had gone mad. (pg66) As we approach the end of their journeys, we see that Marlow has salvaged himsel f from insanity and darkness. Kurtz however, give the gatenot retrieve himself, The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness as Kurtzs life was running swiftly too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time. (pg68) The use of metaphors and analogous language explicates that the further Marlow and the others depart in the sensual journey, the less the likelihood of Marlow obtaining a deleterious soul. However, inversely, the further Kurtz proceeds away from his physical journey, the heart of darkness he entitled to himself the sooner he faces his cessation. He had desecrated his soul, gratified his monstrous passions to the extent where he would now allow his journey to have a path back. This concept is elucidated in the analogy that he had kicked himself from the earthhe had kicked the very earth to pieces.. (pg66). And so the end of Kurtzs journey occurs, his final words being The horror The horror (pg69). He evidently passed judgement on h is actions and life, his journey and he deemed it to be horrid. By the end of his journey, Marlow has an altered perception of life. We see that through this spiritual journey he has gained the mogul to understand reasons for barbarous actions a suggestion that it is only through experience and such a journey, that one could ever understand how and why the mind burn down turn into such a truculent, repugnant thing.Coppolas Apocalypse Now presents a delegation through the Nung River to reach deeper into a jungle. Captain Willard accepts a mission to exterminate Kurtz, a man who implements unsound methods and is accountable for murder. Here Coppola employs a sound technique, the use of music in a minor key to lodge an apprehensive sentiment to the mission. Willard formulates an analogy never get out of the gravy holder unless you were going all the way. Kurtz got off the boat Willard interpolates to Kurtzs mental journey, and how Kurtz got off the boat, and theoretically straight into the arms of the jungle.Kurtz was a man who had extreme potential and ability to reach high ranks within the army. However, he abandoned this and adventured into the unknown and come through new beliefs and ethics, the more I read and began to understand, the more I admired him he couldve gone for general but he went for himself instead. Willards understanding of this is one of the primary indications of his commencement towards his own spiritual journey. Kurtz opens opportunities to Willard by venturing into Kurtzs foundations he ventures into his own.During this dialogue we see close up camera angles of Willard, sweaty with a torch and abusive background, giving him a strong look of obsessiveness. Willard then reads a letter from Kurtz, within the letter is a significant passage, there are many moments for favor there are many moments for ruthless action. What is called ruthless may be seeing distinctly what there is to be done and doing it directly. Kurtz is attemptin g to postulate reason and reassert his ruthless conduct. Following this the boat halts to inspect a natives boat.During the examination, the soldiers open fire despite the natives innocence. They discover a miss is still living, and resolve to accompany her to a hospital. Willard however, determines he must continue on his expedition. He deliberately shoots the girl and thus adopts an aspect of Kurtz, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it. A median camera shot encompasses the face, neck and torso of the girl, lifeless and inert, revealing and provoking an increased sense of rigorousness upon Willards part.Eventually Willard encounters Kurtz, and he imparts a recount explicating the barbarity of the Vietcong guerrilla forces, And then I realized they were stronger than me because they could stand it men who are able to drink down without feeling, without passion, without judgement Upon saying this, his face is shadowed there is no sound but his echoing words rei nforcing the dialogues intensity. Although Kurtz may have desired strength and mercilessness, the irony and sarcasm of his stories pose another reason as to why he divaricated from the army.The American army has the ability to kill and wage war, and yet American soldiers still hold to moral values that completely contradict their actions, we train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders wint allow them to write fuck on their airplanes because its obscene As Kurtz despises such lies, he comes to believe the ability to endure abominable raunch shows true genuine strength, and lacks contradictory behaviour. We thus receive reasoning for Kurtzs journey. Willard then concludes to slay Kurtz, however it is not for the benefit of the army, I wasnt plain in their army anymoreI felt like he was up there waiting for me to take his pain away As he sees Kurtz, the music begins to play rapidly to produce anticipation. It is a ritualistic slaughter, with constant cuts to a sc ene of vicious sacrificial killing of a water buffalo by the natives, insinuating Kurtz as a false deity, having an erroneous journey. He is deservingly being slaughtered like an animal, sacrificed back to his jungle. Kurtzs last words are The Horror, The horror. Here we discriminate an acceptance of iniquity in a humans soul, the horror that can arise when a man delves into his soul, and depraves it through attempts to monopolise it.As Willard exits from slaughtering Kurtz, he has been established as the natives new deity. Undershot camera angles endorse Willards superior status, his face is smeared in mud and his tree trunk is profaned with blood. The music is disturbing (producing an anticipative mood) as he progressively walks through the sea of people. There is the prospect of Willard continuing in Kurtzs footsteps. However, he advances to his boat. It was through this journey that he was able to comprehend Kurtzs actions. But Willard himself did not falter over the edge int o insanity.The journeys in this case show us that placed into the right scenarios, there does sleep a suppressed greed and insanity in every soul that has the chance to escape if delved into. However, as we can see from Marlow and Willards examples, this can be understood and the unleashing of such evil can be avoided. Coppola and Conrad both used their techniques to show this concept and those concepts relating to it. Show laggard only The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found in our GCSE Joseph Conrad section.