EXPOSING THE MYTH OF CIVILISATION: A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF HEART OF DARKNESS AND APOCALYPSE NOW
This study offers a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now with reference to the ways in which they construct and interrogate the concept of civilisation. Spanning 80 years of cultural development, the two texts reflect how, under the pressure of various his...