Please compare rising action of plot of Heart of Darkness with Apocalypse Now, and find a minimum of three differences.Heart of Darkness -...

In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the
main character, Marlow, is an experienced sailor who is instructed by the company for which he
works to travel up the Congo River, into the depths of Africa. His instructions are to bring back
a man named Kurtz. Kurtz has the reputation of being the most successful of the company's
employees to obtain and ship back the largest amounts of ivory, which is the focus of this "ivory
trading company." Marlow makes his journey, finally catching up with Kurtz. The setting of the
story is fearful and unfamiliar to Marlow, but he and his crew are able to carry out the task at
hand.

In Apocalypse Now, the main character is
Captain Willard who has been asked as a part of a "black ops" mission to travel into Cambodia to
kill an insane officer (once considered one of the most promising soldiers in the service) by the
name of Kurtz. The "company" here is the U.S. government and military. The mission is a secret
one that does not really "exist." The film is set in the middle of a war
zone.

Similarities to Apocalypse Now are:
Marlow and Willard have been asked to find someone in a remote area. They have been "hired" to do
so. The character of Kurtz in both stories is insane. Kurtz, in both stories, has embraced the
lifestyle of the culture which he has become a part of. At the end of both stories, Kurtz
dies.

Differences between the two stories are as follows. Marlowe is
a ship's captain, a sailor, who works for a private company, and seems to have his head on his
shoulders. Willard is a drunken, "detached" soldier who has been recruited for a mission by the
U.S. government and the military.

Marlowe is asked to bring Kurtz
back from the jungle; Willard is instructed to kill
Kurtz.

Heart of Darkness is set, for the most
part, on the Congo River and in the jungles of Africa, starting out from the Thames River in
England, probably at the end of the nineteenth
century.

Apocalypse Now is set in the jungles
of Vietnam as Willard travels through Cambodia, in the 1960s during the Vietnam
War.