... for as long as the earth has been turning. It makes no difference whether it is Romans journeying the Thames, or Marlow on the Congo, or Willard on the Nung. The metaphorical darkness is always there at the epicenter of the journey, and it will be forever. Coppola takes ... insanity is somehow universal .(Wilmington 287-88) Thus, everything returns to the point made that "the horror" is a boundless underlying theme in the world as well as these two examined texts. Each stop farther down the river becomes progressively primitive and surreal as Marlow and Willard get closer to ... also did...

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