How Is The Vietnam War Presented In Apocalypse Now

Captain Willard is sitting on the edge of the boat with sweat dripping down his face while multiple dead bodies droop over in the sampan that has brought Captain Willard to the conclusion of how America has created this lie of war to destroy their own soldiers' lives. Vietnam existed both internally as well as externally for U.S. soldiers experiencing the psychological and military landscape of war. Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Coppola is set in 1970 during the Vietnam War and brings in events from the Vietnam War to further their point of the effects that violence has on the soldiers who fought in the war. The film addresses the good and evil of corrupted ideas through the war. The events that Coppola brought into the film relate to

Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried plays two roles in the book as a writer and a soldier. The Things They Carried is a memoir about the draft and the Vietnam War. It focuses on the life of Tim O’Brien but also Lt. Cross and many other characters and their journey around the Vietnam War. The experience that Tim O’Brien writes about in the Vietnam War uses as many physical and emotional feelings throughout the memoir. His hatred towards the war and how war separates characters created two narratives during the war and after the war. Addressing the way America is represented and the status of the nation as a “city upon a hill” is communicated in these pieces. Apocalypse Now and The Things They Carried critique American exceptionalism through the spread of acts of violence and how soldiers change throughout the

of what Vietnamese could do during the war like guerilla warfare. Guerilla warfare was used by the Vietnamese by using average civilians to bring pipe bombs, and landmines and to have snipers attack American bases or soldiers. This attack method kept the U.S. on its toes to expect whatever came their way. Even though this may have seemed like a strong attack method, this allowed the U.S. to be scared and use their fear to napalm and destroy even more villages. These soldiers would take no risks with any soldiers which is shown in Apocalypse Now. “It is a chaotic event that typifies the insanity of the Vietnam War, …In a gesture of compassion, the chief wants to take the girl, the wounded lone survivor, to receive medical care. … Willard shoots the girl through the heart and reminds the chief of his warning not to stop the Sampan” (Roman). The targeting of civilians accelerated due to anxious soldiers which eventually led up to the My Lai Massacre. The massacre did not only show the corruption and evilness that America has created but it showed that there was no purpose of this war and it was only to pursue violence and America's power. Almost all of the women and girls were r*ped and mutilated during this slaughter and still America tried to hide it due to their reputation of a few soldiers. America promoted ideas of democracy and peace to other