Yes; but it 's like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker—may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday" (Conrad 48). Marlow is describing to his audience that even though there were positive things—like knights—they did not always have to deal with happy fairy tales, but could deal with the violent and destructive things—much like the destruction of another country. There is also this which is said by Col. Kurtz: “Horror, Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared” (Apocalypse Now). This can be compared to how the phrase “The horror! The horror!” was the final sentence by Kurtz in both Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness, leaving what was meant by these words up for interpretation (Apocalypse Now). However, basing this on what Kurtz had to say earlier in the movie, these words have a deep and dark meaning for Kurtz to be saying them at the end of his
Yes; but it 's like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker—may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday" (Conrad 48). Marlow is describing to his audience that even though there were positive things—like knights—they did not always have to deal with happy fairy tales, but could deal with the violent and destructive things—much like the destruction of another country. There is also this which is said by Col. Kurtz: “Horror, Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared” (Apocalypse Now). This can be compared to how the phrase “The horror! The horror!” was the final sentence by Kurtz in both Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness, leaving what was meant by these words up for interpretation (Apocalypse Now). However, basing this on what Kurtz had to say earlier in the movie, these words have a deep and dark meaning for Kurtz to be saying them at the end of his