...human soul, and this evil side breaks out during times when there is a difference in culture; for example, during World War II, Nazis killed any Jews that appeared in Europe, and their reason was Jews were not considered Germans, and they were believed to be disloyal and untrustworthy. This shows the difference in culture that created darkness inside the mind of the Nazis, who told them to do unimaginable things. The madness, fear, imperialism, death, escape, and difference in culture are the main theme of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now; although they were written in different times, settings, and purposes, they both express how savage the human mind can be when he confronts with darkness. Both the novel Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now address the idea of imperialism. Imperialism, defining as a country’s political, military, and economic domination over another, is the theme that talk thoroughly in both works. For instance, in Heart of Darkness, richer nations are robbing the goods in Africa, such as ivory and slaves, while in Apocalypse Now America is trying to subvert Vietnam from being Communism. A modern example that relate to the idea of imperialism is America showing assistant to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and its reason is to secure the oil trade with Iraq. Clearly, America is using its superior power to dominate other countries from being threaten, and this is the danger of imperialism. On the other hand, I also see imperialism is based on greediness;...
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...ART APOCALYPSE AND MILLENIALISM (Name) (Institution affiliation) (Course) (Date) APOCALYPSE AND MILLENIALISM Introduction As the societies embrace the turn of a millennium, there is, historically, a perceived notion that this is a portentous time- a time of jubilation, may be, but on equal grounds, and may be more persistently, a time of apprehension. Five hundred year cycles system appears to be as significant as the thousand year cycles. Discussion In Thomas Schutte’s Efficiency Men (2005), there are three enormous ghostly figures of men. These figures are standing on thin spirals of steel and are covered by heavy dark blankets from which emerge perturbing faces modeled in colored silicon. Resembling grotesque figures in costume, these effigies of corrupt, scandal ridden contemporary society slope in a sinister fashion across the room of exhibition; they might be well an embodiment of the death that is elicited in the artwork of paintings on the walls. Mysterious and enigmatic, are a combination of artifice and superficiality, urging us to get involved more directly with the reality of our everyday world. This is the only way in which the dialogue between art and society can become truly meaningful (Dogana, 2014). This artwork by Schutte, explicitly displays the hopelessness and devastation of humanity which is evoked probably by the thoughts and imaginations of apocalyptic events. The human race is doomed and...
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...or find food. Humans are most likely to find food on their own than wait for help This is being self reliant. The fear of not having any food causes the survivor to invent new techniques and expand their skill tree. At first they started out as a seed and then the apocalyptic event makes the seed grow through tough and sometimes fatal decisions. An example is choosing to take a bath when water is low. During this apocalyptic event water is keen to survival. The number one resource is always water. It is the thing that keeps humans alive, and it is used for thirst.It has all of these abilities and more.A lack of a water supply can disrupt the survivor’s cooking cleaning and sanitation skills (Haynes 5). People take water for granted and when its gone its gone. The next behavior is resourcefulness,so the survivor must have a sense of resourcefulness in an apocalyptic setting. They need to be grateful for every meal. Humans as a whole have a certain tendency to take items that are not necessary or vital to survival people will most always take objects like photos or mementos (Yuen 1).When people hear be resourceful they tend to think common concepts such as reusing,reducing,and recycling. These are the keys to survival but when saying this do not assume that everything needs to be reused or recycled in other words take what is needed do not be greedy. In the apocalypse world there are tons of behaviors people should and should not do. First,They must never waste food. If the survivors...
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...The novel Station Eleven, written by Emily St. John Mandel is a deeply reflective story that revolves around the deceased character of Arthur Leander, both by illustrating how he behaved before he died, and by clarifying his lasting influence on those close to him after his death during the world ending apocalypse. In this context, the novel can be interpreted as a thoughtful character study, demonstrating how human society has reverted back to their primal roots due to the damage caused by the “end of the world”. The particular relationship between a person and their society has also shifted as a result of this catastrophe, and is central to the novel as well. However, one of the most important themes of the novel, revolves around class discrepancies,...
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...settings, and stylistic convention) but revamps particular details in those particular ways that the filmmakers see as necessary and fitting. The third one is radical, which reshapes the book in extreme and revolutionary ways both as a means of interpreting the literature and of making the film a more fully independent work. (Linda Cahir, p17) Traditional adaptation and radical adaptation are considered to be the top two types of film adaptations to discuss since traditional adaptation and radical adaptation are mostly seen in films. In order to examine the effectiveness of both traditional adaptation and radical adaptation in films, Pride and Prejudice (both novel and film), Heart of Darkness (novella) and the film adaptation of this novella Apocalypse Now are going to be discussed here. According to Linda Cahir, “Traditional adaptation maintains the overall traits of the book (its plots, settings, and stylistic convention) but revamps particular details in those particular ways that the filmmakers see as necessary and fitting. (P16)” Pride and Prejudice (both film and novel) is applied here to examine the nature of the traditional adaptation and evaluate the effectiveness of traditional adaptation in the film. As far...
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...In, “Cheer up, it's just the end of the world”, Ira Chermus compares the apocalyptic views of the world and how the meaning has changed over the last half-century. From the religious apocalypse to the nuclear apocalypse, the story defines society as constantly dooming life as they know it everywhere that they look. However, the real threat to fear, the global warming apocalypse seems to be brushed under the rug and forgotten. After discussing all the gloom and doom, the story takes a twist and tries to encourage people to focus on the things that matter and live for a brighter tomorrow. I believe that the implied message is that people need to wake up before it really is the end of the world, because it discusses how people spend their life...
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...In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggin, a six-year old genius is able to survive a world that has been created from the constant fear of another attack from the Buggers, aliens who attacked the Earth years before, killing millions. The attack has left the world in fear of another invasion, which shows as the I.F has spent the last 80 years creating a new military of children. The fear leads the people and allows them to grow stronger as well as to defeat their enemy in time. While the war against Earth may not be referred to as the common definition of an apocalypse, it is an apocalypse of sorts. Even though the war against the Buggers did not completely destroy Earth, it completely destroyed the Humans’ lives and their way of living....
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...Joseph Tanaka Dr. Whipple Eng 150 Apocalypse Now Review The sound of machine guns, the whirl of helicopter blades, and “the smell of napalm in the morning” makes Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola look like a traditional, action-packed Vietnam War movie. However, upon further examination, the film reveals a much deeper, ominous, and senseless reality that realistically depicts the Vietnam War. Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece of the nineteen sixty counter culture movement that is transposed into the characters of the Vietnam War. The aspects of Apocalypse Now that make it one of the most horrifying movies of the Vietnam era are the characters, the plot, and the setting. The horrifying way human beings treat one another is an enduring quality present in the characters Apocalypse Now. Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore’s Ninth Air Calvary embodies the brutality of the war because of his callous attack on a village filled with non combative residents. In the scene of the helicopter attack on the Mekong Delta village, a Vietnamese villager comes up to an American helicopter loading a wounded soldier and throws a hat with a grenade inside, blowing up everyone inside. Upon seeing this attack by a single villager, Kilgore exclaims, “Holy Christ she’s a savage, somebody get that Dink!” and a group of helicopters decimate her family trying to run away. Not only ruthless was Kilgore’s response but also the amusement that his own soldiers felt while shooting the woman and other innocent civilians...
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...Ruben Fleischer (2009) film, Zombieland, zombie movies have become very popular because people want to experience a zombie apocalypse. The success of this film delivers entertainment, interests, and desires for the people that are big fans of zombies with survival guidelines throughout the movie on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Balaji, Murali. Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. Print. This book discusses how over time zombies have become popular to American culture. Zombies became so popular that it “has a way of seizing upon our anxieties and apprehensions and delivering content that reflects these fears while still entertaining us” (17). Present day America calls the entertainment of a film, adrenaline. In this case “the time is ripe for the rebirth of zombie culture” (17), to deliver the adrenaline to all audience, especially the younger generation. The facts from this book will be useful to my essay since it describes the adrenaline they deliver to the audience to be entertained and who they target their entertainment on, the younger generation. Boluk, Stephanie and Lenz, Wylie. “Generation Zombie. Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture.” Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2011. Print. The thesis of this book discusses how today’s generation is preparing for a real life zombie apocalypse. By observing how people prepare for zombie...
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...Heart of Darkness vs. Apocalypse Now Both the novel "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad and the movie "Apocalypse Now" are about one man's journey through Africa and Vietnam. A comparison and contrast can be made between the two. Both have the same themes but entirely different settings. Heart of Darkness takes place on the Congo River in the Heart of Africa while Apocalypse Now is set in Vietnam. The stock characters in both have the same general personalities but have different names. Of course, Kurtz is Kurtz, Willard twins Marlow, and the American photojournalist relates to the Russian Harlequin. Willard is a lieutenant for the US Army while Marlow is a captain of a steamboat of an ivory company. The first looks of Willard and Marlow differ a little. The movie begins with Willard lying in an apartment room completely out of touch with reality. He is haunted by his earlier deeds and he is getting very plastered. Willard smashes the mirror while fighting himself and cuts his hand. He falls to the bed crying. Marlow is portrayed as a traveler of the sea. The narrator described him as a hero somewhat. Their mission is to find Kurtz and take him down.. In both stories Kurtz is a psychotic rebel, worshipped as a god, who threatens the stability of his unit, but in one it is an ivory trading company and in the other it is the US Army. Kurtz, who had begun his assignment a man of great optimism and the highest morals, had become peculiarly savage. Tribes of natives worship...
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...totally hot right now” (Drezner para 1). “Look at movies like ‘Warm Bodies’ and the coming ‘World War Z,’ the ratings for AMC’s hit series ‘The Walking Dead’ and $2.5 billion in annual sales for zombie videogames” (Drezner para 1). As time progresses, zombies seem to become a more prominent aspect of the American culture. Many people, along with thousands of experts, actually think that there could be a zombie apocalypse at some point in their lifetime. The primary cause of the zombie apocalypse popularity is gained through the entertainment that the media presents to casual audiences. The zombie craze originally started with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” This song set stage for zombie entertainment for the future. Over time, zombies have proven to “thrive in popular culture during times of recession, epidemic and general unhappiness” (Drenzer para 4). Since the United States is currently attempting to recover from a recession, zombies in entertainment are flourishing within American’s everyday lives. “The reason zombies are so powerful is that they capture an atheistic fear of the dead” (Marche para 4). Many experts say that this is one of the many reasons why the people like the shows so greatly and also why they prepare themselves for the worst (Gross para 25). As time has passed, zombies have highly impacted the entertainment industry. “While vampires may have been the ‘it’ monster in recent years, with the popularity of successful franchises such as ‘Twilight’ and ‘The Vampire...
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...tension between Soviet and American powers, the Cold War was born, and a heightened level of fear began in America due to the potential Soviet expansion of communism. During this time, “postwar politics and art were inextricably intertwined,” yet artistic expression was suppressed by the world's superpowers (http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazines/cold-war-cool-art/)....
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...future by describing it. This mode is often -- but not always -- dystopian. It is distinguished most by a moralistic and apocalyptic state of mind. Let's call it Cassandraism, after the daughter of Troy whose prophecies were not believed. Launched with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Cassandraism remains the most socially acceptable branch on the family tree of science fiction, embracing such respectably literary figures as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Margaret Atwood, who with her 1986 novel The Handmaid's Tale became its foremost contemporary practitioner. In Atwood's new novel Oryx and Crake, digital convergence and genetic engineering are combined and carried to their logical conclusion, a media-filtered apocalypse that the characters (and, one senses, the author) simultaneously yearn for and struggle against. Like the Bible's Book of Revelation, Oryx and Crake should be read not as a prediction of the future, but as a nightmare of the present. It stands in a tradition of novels like Brave New World or 1984 that are vaticinia ex eventu: history disguised as prophecy. If the imaginative success of a Cassandraist novel as a warning must be measured in direct...
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...An Ambition Apocalypse Creak! Creak! goes the floors as Eureka turns off the lantern, which lights our cabin. “Good night everyone!” I say. I shut my eyes, and my mind drifts away into the wonders of this spectacular summer night. I feel a chilly rush glide through the room as I fall asleep. The next morning I wake up to a cool breeze bursting through the room and the sounds of birds chirping away. “Wake up girls, we leave in five minutes! We don’t want to be late for the singing steps!” cheerfully says our counselor, Peach. “Just five more minutes.” I groan in my thoughts. Sabrina, Phoebe, Alisha, Eureka and I all sleep soundly until we get waken up. Alisha, Eureka, and I still wanted to sleep for about 5 more years, but I couldn’t wait to see my other friends at breakfast. I wonder what we will have today. ¨Meredith, we might leave soon.” advises my friend, Rachel, as we walk from my cabin together to singing steps. Our campsite, Pathfinder, happens to be located where we have to climb up a steep hill to go back to the rest of camp. I suppose it does make us wide awake though....
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...The TV show that has captivated me for the past few years has been The Walking Dead, broadcast by the channel AMC. The show follows an ever changing cast that has to endure the world after a “zombie apocalypse.” This show is in its sixth season and I have been and avid viewer since the first episode which debuted with a black-and-white encore. The show grasps the attention of audiences across the world due to its gory scenes of transformed zombies and the mutilation shown to end the wandering on the planet. There is more to this cheesy plot than just survival. I am enthralled with the cast members, societal dilemmas and the levels of determination. The first episode starts with Rick, a sheriff, at the local police department who wakes up in the hospital after being shot in the line of duty. Rick is unaware of the state of the country at this time because he was hospitalized before it occurred. He wakes to a quiet hospital and no power to his life support system. As he stumbles about the hospital he realizes it’s empty and comes to a door with...
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