İKİ, ÜÇ DAHA FAZLA KIYAMET… (KARANLIĞIN YÜREĞİ'NDE 'KIYAMET')
"TWO, THREE ... MANY APOCALYPSE" (APOCALYPSE IN HEART OF DARKNESS)

Summary/Abstract: The main theme of this article is the narrative and stylistic affinities between Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now'' and its movie adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'. Both works of art are compared in many ways according to the things they express, the language which is used, images and music. Imperialism and war that constitute the background of these two works of art have taken a lot of interest both as a novel and a film. The book describes the journeys that Captain Williard takes in the dark forest and deep swamp and in the middle of the war fields in order to kill Colonel Kurtz who is a rebellious soldier, a crazy and dangerous man who has become a kind of half man and half god. A nightmare journey which is in horror and madness of the war turns into a narrative which includes malice that root in human souls. There are some concerns about both authors in Condrad's and Coppola's texts as follows: What are the moral issues of imperialism? What are the things that suit human nature? Do we all keep a secret with the charm of hatred.We have tried to set a critical look on these two works of art which the political approach of the film's screenplay writer and the author of the book is clearly stated in. In this sense, via the creators of those works through a novel and its film adaptation, they try to impose their own truths with their points of view in their period. In this respect, there is a need to have a look again to these two works of art and their writers. We have used the elements of Marxist criticism in this anew look.

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