"Exterminate All The Brutes": A Study into the Shift of Colonialism between Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Frances Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.

Abstract

This study explores the shift of colonialism from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. The first chapter on Conrad consist of examples of the enforcement of colonialism by the Company in the Congo and is proven along with the dehumanisation of the natives and the role of ivory. The second chapter on Coppola consists of the role of colonialism executed by the U.S. army in Vietnam and the impact it had on the young American soldiers.