Heart of Darkness/Blood Diamond

Greed is the go down of All Evil Greed exists at the centre of evil on non only an individual level, but also that of a communal and global level. Contextually on that point is a superficial alteration in the stimulus (Ivory vs. ball field) for greed and of global awareness towards the issue, although in the cytosine that separates Joseph Conrads exploration of colonial regime in his novella shopping mall of wickedness and Edward Zwicks post-colonial film inception Diamond, the values driving the major characters and particularions from the contrary texts are comparably similar.In both(prenominal) texts, there are individuals showcasing major facets make by greed, obsessed with the stimulus that is presented in either century. In Conrads Heart of shadow, the character Kurtz is primarily stimulated by greed. His obsession with off-white was at an extreme where main character Marlow refers to his physical appearance as like a ball- an ivory ball and as having an ivory face . These several(prenominal) simile and metaphors encapsulate how Kurtz had become gripped by ivory to the point where it was pickings over his very being.This description that Kurtz is placed in is carried through to his last moments where The brown current ran swiftly out of the Heart of Darkness-Kurtzs liveliness was running swiftly, too This indirect juxtaposition links the ideas of Kurtzs vitality with the Heart of Darkness, not being a physical location, but an internalised personality representing Kurtz. These links of the rapacious Kurtz to a being of pure degradedity is an perspicacity into the overtaken existence of greed within individuals of evil.In similarity, is Colonel Coetzee from Zwicks Blood Diamond. This individual has a lust for wealth, one so overbearing that it blinds him from the fact that he destroys batch of lives to achieve his personal benefit. A scene that best represents this mindless toilet murder for a ca lend oneself that results in selfish profit is the Colonels order from the helicopter, I dont give a cuss whos down there, kill them all A low topple close up shot of the centre framed helicopter is used, presenting it as an overpowering, menacing presence.The line itself poses an emphasis on the Colonels voracious motives, suggesting he would kill his friend, and main character Danny Archer, if it means his war is win and his seldom benefits are received. There is considered intertextuality between this quote and that of Kurtz from Heart of Darkness. At the complete loss of morality from Kurtz, a quote marks this points deracinate all the brutes. These quotes set the two characters from the individual texts together and with it, their greedy purposes and malefic natures, proving that the greed of an individual is the root of their co-existing evil.Greed dictated decomposition is also empirical on a communal level, both in Heart of Darkness and Blood Diamond. In Heart of Darkness, the Company is the centre o f trade in the Congo, a searchingly legitimate industry, although with hidden voracious motives. She talked about ablactation those ignorant millions from their horrid ways-I ventured to hint that the Company was run for profit. This understatement made by Marlow expresses the Companys care, or lack of, for the natives of the Congo, but in fact they only care to exploit the natural resources.We are consistently hinted that their snuff it isnt out there in the luminous estuary but within the brooding gloom. These binary opposites are repeatedly used in the novella to separate the ideas of light and dark with good and evil respectively, an extreme use of irony that Conrad persists with throughout the book. This mindless exploitation is an example of how greed cigarette negatively affect a companionship. The communal personal issuings of evil driven by rapacity in Blood Diamond, is displayed through the actions of the R. U.F, the Revolutionary united Front. Their turning of na tive children into child soldiers and other locals into slave labourers, marks their inadvertence to human life so that they can gain wealth from the diamond trade. A heavily symbolistic scene in the film is the celebration interest the overtake of Freetown in Sierra Leonne by the R. U. F. The loud, scratchy medical specialty accompanying the low key lighting in contrast to the intellectual blurred flames creates a sense of chaos and lack of morality, emphasised by the fast cuts and camera movement.The chiaroscuro lighting on the characters faces and the silhouettes juxtapose to the bright fiery background symbolises their consummation by darkness. Several presentations of immoral acts are shown, dead bodies being strung, children consuming alcohol and drugs and the destruction of property, linking to the unadulterated allusion of Dantes Inferno, exemplifying pointless suffering and destruction. This, among other scenes, symbolises the complete indifference for human life in t he voracious scramble for Africas resources.Although in the century that separates the two texts, awareness has grown dramatically, the global scale of corruption due to acts of greed are present in both texts. In Heart of Darkness, the novella ends back aboard the boat with Marlow and his crew as they are lead into the heart of an immense darkness. The physical connotations of this quote is that the readys can be seen on the other side of the world in England, although ironically the Heart of Darkness doesnt lie in both the Congo and the Thames but man himself, whose actions have a global effect the actions of Kurtz. Upon the whole, the trade will suffer. I dont deny there is a remarkable quantity of ivory-mostly fossil This quote demonstrates the global effect that Kurtzs actions undertake, making a historical allusion to the fossil ivory that stop up in Siberia. This demonstrates the global effects that branches out from the corrupt actions of a greedy soul. In contrast, the global awareness to the situation in Blood Diamond was comparably increased to that of the nineteenth century, although the global effects of overeating driven evil were evidently more severe. The third world is not a world apart is an ironic statement represented by the heavily juxtaposed scenes between a G8 conference and the diamond field of Sierra Leonne. The high key lighting of the conference opposed to the taint lighting of the diamond fields along with the respective modern twine scheme and the dirty, unappealing colour scheme is contrasted with quick scene cuts to juxtapose the sheer difference between the two separate worlds. Although these two locations seem so distant, the effects are carried through from one to the other.The conflict diamonds collapse the stores of the first world but are not ours to steal in the name of comfort, corporations, and consumerism. This captures the global effects that mans greed enfolds, taking advantage of the actions of corruption f or our own consumerism, or greed. So in the century that separates Joseph Conrads exploration of colonial regime in his novella Heart of Darkness and Edward Zwicks post-colonial film Blood Diamond, there is sufficient consequence to remark that greed is the root of all evil in man, the effects spanning not only the heart of man but within its community and on a global scale.