Confronting Fear in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

Confronting Fear in Heart of wickedness and Apocalypse Now Inherent in array every human reason is a savage evil side that remains repressed by society. Often this evil side breaks out during times of isolation from our culture, and whenever one and only(a) culture confronts another. History is loaded with examples of atrocities that have occurred when one culture comes into meeting with another. Whenever fundamentally different cultures meet, there is often a fear of pollution and loss of self that leads us to discover more about our real selves, often causing perceived angryness by those who have stock-still to discover. The Puritans left Europe in hopes of finding a new homo to welcome them and their beliefs. What they found was a vast new world, loaded with Indian cultures new to them. This overwhelming cultural interaction caused some Puritans to go mad and try to purge themselves of a perceived evil. This came to be known as the Salem witch trials. During World War II, Germany made an attempt to overproduction Europe. What happened when the Nazis came into power and persecuted the Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland is well known as the Holocaust. Here, humans evil side provides one of the scariest occurrences of this century. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi counterparts conducted raids of the ghettos to locate and often exterminate any Jews they found. Although Jews ar the most widely known victims of the Holocaust, they were not the only targets. When the war ended, 6 million Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis, had died in the Holocaust. Most of these deaths occurred in gas domiciliate and mass shootings. This gruesome attack was motivated mainly by the fear of cultural intermixing which would impurify the Master Race. Joseph Conrads book, The Heart of Darkness and Francis Coppolas movie, Apocalypse Now are both stories about Mans journey into his self, and the discoveries to be made there. They are to a fault about Man confronting his fears of failure, insanity, death, and cultural contamination. During Marlows mission to find Kurtz, he is excessively trying to find himself. He, same(p) Kurtz had good intentions upon entering the Congo. Conrad tries to show us that Marlow is what Kurtz had been, and Kurtz is what Marlow could become. Every human has a little of Marlow and Kurtz in them. Marlow says about himself, I was getting savage (Conrad), meaning that he was becoming more like Kurtz.