Human wildness in the Heart of Darkness

Xiaoting lin

Thesis

wildness is inside of everybody, only hidden in the depth of the heart.

Heart of Darkness

• the dark side of Africa

• the darkness of humanity

Heart of Darkness

• corruption of imperialism and colonization

• humanity is corroded at the primitive place

Apocalypse Now

• mankind is easy to lose control of self in the endless killing and stay too long in battlefield.

Apocalypse Now

• The savages and the blood provoke the wildness in a human's heart

conclusion

• Humanity, civilization and ethics are challenged by primitive places, savage and immorality

Work Cited Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Ed. Modern Library Paperback. Blackwood’s magazine,1899

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Apocalypse Now. Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. Pref. Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottons, Laurence Fishburne and Dennis Hopper. Zoetrope Studios, 1979 Film

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Sara Assad Nassab. A postcolonial and psychological approach to Heart of Darkness. Department of Languages and Cuture. Ed. Prof. Billy Gray. June 2006.